big day

...so today was kind of a big day...it started with a trip to the doctor for cadence's 12 month visit...i have to say that i absolutely love our doctor, dr. fothergill...she makes our baby laugh and laugh and she is also very encouraging of our efforts at natural parenting (nursing, cosleeping, etc...) cadence is doing great for her age...unfortunately, she had to get two shots today, and one of them was rather painful...she cried a lot after that one...

...today was also the first really chilly day of autumn...as you can see, we really had to bundle up our little cadence, esp. on our long walk to the fun-damentals playgroup that meets at a church on wilson and campbell just west of lincoln square...this is the playgroup cadence and i went to on saturday and had a blast at...today we got to go as a family since i'd taken a vacation day for cadence's doctor's appointment...

...our friend denise and her son zachary were at the playgroup too...denise is the one who told me about the playgroup in the first place...zach is so adorable with his big eyes and loads of curly hair!

...as you can see, cadence loves her playgroup! and it was extra fun with zach there to play with as well!

...it was raining when we got out of the playgroup so we had to hurry home...of course, we didn't have an umbrella with us, but teddy and i had our hoodies and luckily we just happened to have our rainshield for the stroller with us...

...after the playgroup, we went home for a bit and then trekked on down to wicker park to use a gift card for potbelly's that i'd gotten for christmas last year from ted's brother jay...then we went to psycho baby which is a baby boutique store right across the street from the WP potbelly's...it was just ridiculously expensive there, even though they have a lot of hopelessly hip(ster) baby clothes there...we've decided that we really need to invest in a sewing machine (and sewing lessons) so that we can make our own cool clothes for cadence without having to dip into her college fund...

anywho, so we're back home now, and it was just about an hour ago when cadence took two small steps from holding onto daddy's leg towards daddy's bass drum...she's definitely headed in the right direction!

we still have to eat dinner and go to see wallace and grommit at the AMC where jay is working, so today is definitely a BIG day for us!