Date Night

Friday night we had a date planned, so one of my old Laurels came over to babysit. We were just going to take Declan like usual because I nurse and he's still so little. Well, it was about 8:15, and he was already asleep. He'd been falling asleep for the night around 8ish lately, and so was probably already asleep for the night. Tom didn't want to take him and our babysitter was willing to watch him, so I nursed him and laid him in his swing because it would be an easy way to get him back to sleep if he woke up. Well, through the nursing and everything he stayed asleep. We figured he would be okay, and so we left for out date . . . just the 2 of us. It was SOOOOO weird. Here I am with a newborn and I nurse, and I'm actually out of the house on a date without him. Now we left instructions to call us if he woke up and seemed hungry, and, since we'd only be 15 minutes away, we could come back really easily. We also showed her the spare bottle and formula, which I always keep until I'm done nursing. So off Tom and I went to eat dinner. We had a delicious dinner at Macaroni Grill, and then headed off to the theater to catch a movie. As we sat in the theater waiting for the movie to start I texted our babysitter to see if everything was okay. It was. When we got home after the movie it was about 4 hours from when we left and everyone - all 4 kids - were still asleep (even the babysitter was asleep. :); she felt bad but I know my kids are all quite capable of making themselves heard if they need something). It was so weird and so crazy that we actually got to go on a date all on our own, but it was also so nice!!!!! Thanks to Claudia for babysitting and thanks to Declan for being such a wonderful baby and thanks to my girls for going to sleep and not waking back up. What a wonderful night!!