Visits from friends!

Yesterday was busy.  In the morning, Tabitha and I went to have brunch with Tabby's Great Nanna (a sprightly woman who catches two buses from her home in Mount Martha for a visit, and regularly travels overseas on her own!).  We ate at Capitol Kitchen at Chadstone - they have a good kids' menu for babies, with toasted sandwich 'soldiers' of either cheese and vegimite or cheese and ham, then I just add a few bits from my own salad, and it's a nice little lunch for Tabitha.

In the afternoon, Tabby's godmother Sophie came for a visit.  Tabitha was thrilled, because Sophie is endlessly patient and a source of long cuddles.  Together they sat and untangled some of my wool collection, too - bonus!  Sophie competes in Roller Derby, and I took Tabitha along to a bout late last year - she had a great time (lots of people to watch), but it was quite noisy, so this year I will be purchasing a pair of baby earmuffs for her to wear when we go along to watch.

Also in the afternoon, my friends Ruby and Christina came over for a visit - Christina hadn't met Tabby yet, and Ruby has just gotten back from a work trip to New York, and came bearing gifts for Tabitha!

Ruby went shopping at Estella NYC, a designer baby shop frequented by celebrity mummas (I am told).  She had an appointment with a stylist at Estella, for work, and tried very hard to keep a straight face while the guy gushingly pointed out all the items worn by 'celebri-babies' such as Shiloh Jolie-Pitt tee hee...  Anyway, despite the high 'wanky factor', the store is full of cute baby clothes, and Ruby brought back a few bits and pieces for Tabitha.

These pants ('as worn by Shiloh') are super-comfy, and remind me of Happy Pants from the 80s:

This is a cute and comfortable onesie for warmer weather - it will actually fit her perfectly when we are in the US in May:

She also brought back a sweet little noise-maker which meows, and a solar-powered swarovski crystal!!!  Apparently the stylist would not let her leave without buying one, insisting that "all the top celebrity babies have one of these!"

I managed to scoot everyone out the door just in time to quickly feed and cuddle Tabitha, before rushing out to meet my best friend Amy - she took me out to dinner, as a 'baby-free treat', at one of my favourite restaurants, Yu-u.  Dinner was fantastic, around ten small courses of incredible Japanese food, and a little sake on the side.  This was only the second time I've been out to dinner without her (the other time was for our wedding anniversary in October last year) - and it was fun!