A Day of History and Friends!!

Today was a fun day for me, I hope Finley enjoyed himself as well. I have been glued to the inauguration coverage for President Obama (that sounds fantastic!) all day. We have been following Barack since he announced his candidacy for president and I am so pleased with the result!! I was thinking to last winter when I was about 14 or 15 weeks pregnant with Finley and Obama came for a rally in Madison. We gathered with a few friends and braved the WI February snow, ice, cold and crowded downtown streets to go see Barack speak at the Kohl Center to a packed house. It will be very cool to talk with Finley someday about this promising new era for our country and the history made and how he actually was a part of it!!
Besides the exciting news coverage all day I also had a great day with friends. My BFF Leslie had a conference to attend here in Madison this morning and afterword she thought she'd stop over to see Finley and myself. She brought over lunch and it was nice to break up a regular day for a lunch visit and just catch up. Then this evening my friend Kelli (check out her blog!!) who recently moved to Mad-town came over for a casual dinner (her treat!) and to catch up. I haven't actually seen Kelli in what seems like forever but we picked up where we left off and had oodles to chat about since our lives have changed so much. I am very excited to have Kelli here in Madison now. She has a 9 month old niece so Finley couldn't do much to scare her off though I think he tried to compete with our conversation for a good part! She's baby proof!
Finley was quite the active little bug tonight and when getting his bath ready he did some very promising crawling techniques to get to the bathroom. He seems to be very motivated by the sound of the bath water. It won't be long now before we have to secure the fort!