Alluring weekend

This alluring weekend is A Luhring Weekend. :) Currently we have no plans...and that feels good. It's just us spending time together. Awesome! We had lunch, walked around this cute little shopping village, and played with Brady. Does it get any better than this?

I realized I have no pictures of Brady in his car seat...and I certainly have no pictures of Brady smiling in his car seat. (These days, at least the first 5 minutes in the car are spent in the company of the purple tera dactyl. I suspect he's just lonely back there. It usually does get better as the trip progresses and I turn up the radio, sing, and go more than 25 mph.) At any rate, he was in a happy mood today even in his car seat...again, it's a Great weekend!Many times Brett has commented that attitudes and perspectives color everything. It's amazing that tasks that I once considered mundane (grocery shopping for example) can now be super fun learning experiences and photo ops! Now, don't get me wrong...this can also go the other way and what used to be a relatively simple task before we had a baby now becomes an adventure. See our Wal-mart post for a detailed example of these sorts of adventures. But today was one of the former...we all went grocery shopping at Harris Teeter. For the first time, Brady was carried around the store by Daddy (instead of his usual place riding in his car seat in the cart when it is just him and me) and got a different experience while Daddy described all the things he could see and had him touching things like prickly pineapples, bumpy cantaloupes, and cold steaks. :) And of course in true blogging and new parent fashion, I took pictures in the parking lot. (I forgot to take the camera in the store- bummer because Brett and Brady were cute together and I usually do not have an extra set of hands to complete the task and also capture these very normal everyday but adorable moments.)
Brady looks very serious about grocery shopping here, but it was really just the bright sun making him have this deeply pensive look.
He needed Daddy's help today, but one day he'll think these shopping CARts are way cool!