Wedding fun

Friday started off with thunderstorms and torrential rain, so we decided to spend the morning indoors, and took a leisurely shop through the enormous Austin Whole Foods supermarket, enjoying lots of free samples, and picking up some of the Whole Foods specialties. This store is so huge that they have a whole section devoted to clothing, and of course, there was a headless mannequin, or as you probably all now know, a loser. Julia, as usual, pointed it out, so I had her stop to pose with the loser:


In the afternoon, we attended to wedding of my cousin, Stephen, to my now cousin-in-law Samantha, and Julia had an absolute ball! Ever since the wedding of Ethan's childhood friend Adam this past summer, Julia has been obsessed with weddings, specifically with brides in their wedding dress. So what a treat it was for her to actually get to dance with the beautiful bride last night; my usually slow-to-warm-up-to-new-people daughter went right to Samantha when she held out her arms to Julia:



Truth be told, Julia wasn't shy or self-conscious at all during the wedding reception; she was out cutting a rug like you wouldn't believe, along with a handful of other kids. In fact, there was a period of time in which the dance floor was completely, solely occupied by kids, and you would have thought Julia was in wonderland, she was so happy to be out there prancing around:



Madeleine even decided to join the kids out on the dance floor:



She was fascinated by the disco lights and kept crawling over to wherever they were flashing, then attempted to grab at their reflection and pick them up, which resulted in her just whacking her hand against the floor repeatedly, but at least it kept her entertained!

And speaking of Madeleine's moves, this morning we went out for brunch at Kerbey Lane, another of our favorite Austin eateries. Madeleine decided to be as inopportune as possible and do a big poop as soon as we'd placed our order, and of course the restaurant didn't have a changing facility in the restrooms. Ethan chose to take her out to the car to do a diaper change, and he determined the trunk was the roomiest place to execute said change. Well, apparently the trunk of the car was an exciting new destination for Madeleine, who couldn't contain her curiosity and wound up rolling off the changing pad and crawling all around the trunk to explore her new environment. Luckily, the poopy diaper was off and the new diaper was on before she decided it was time to up and move, so the poop did not also take a trip around the trunk along with her... potential disaster averted!