The Big Long Wait (Our Adoption Journeys): Jogging... I Mean Walking!

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Jogging... I Mean Walking!

This past Sunday we had our first "official" visit with Kate's birth parents. We were able to see her birth mom again about two weeks after Kate was born, but this was the first planned visit. We were so excited that they were able to join us at church on Sunday and then we all went out to lunch at Mellow Mushroom. We had a great time catching up, and are looking forward to building an even better relationship with them. We love the fact that Kate will grow up knowing who her biological parents are and if/when she has any questions, we love that she will be able to ask them!

After we got home, we were both pretty exhausted from a busy day so we relaxed for a while. Then, we decided to use Kate's new jogging stroller. I think a more accurate name for this stroller for me would be a "walking stroller" or an "outside stroller" because I highly doubt that it will be used for jogging except for maybe a couple of times a year. Regardless, it's a pretty awesome stroller and between coupons, a gift card, and some Babies-R-Us rewards it was also a pretty awesome deal.

So, on Sunday Kevin and I decided to take it for a spin around the neighborhood. I guess if you want to get technical, since we don't live in a real neighborhood, we decided to take it for a spin around the neighborhood right down the road from us. See how excited Kate was to be bundled up to go on a walk!?

Yeah, she basically slept through the whole thing. She'd wake up a little, look around, and then close her eyes again. She does seem to enjoy being outside though. She loves to sit on the porch and watch our dogs (Max and Cooper) run back and forth. We didn't get to take the dogs on the walk with us (WAY too hard to deal with them) but they had to check Kate out when we got back.