Date Night with Jeff

Jeff and I had our first "date night" a few weeks back. And by "date night" I mean a date where we WENT OUT and did NOT have Nathan with us. We started small. We had one of Jeff's co-workers come over and put Nathan to bed. We had him all ready in his pajamas, and we gave him a bottle right as she arrived so everything would be all set. Since he goes to bed around 7pm every night, all she would have to do (hopefully) was put him in his crib with his pacifier. And turn on the white noise machine.

Jeff and I left to go see "Alice in Wonderland" in 3-D and we both really enjoyed it!

It was kind of a different spin on the classic tale, but I enjoyed the spin Tim Burton put on it, and I even thought Crispin Glover was weirdly sexy in kind of a bad boy way.

Anyway, Jeff and I pretty much saw the movie and came home around 9:30pm. Not a long night, but since this was our first venture out, we wanted to take it slow. As we were walking up the path to our house we heard crying. Not a good sign. NORMALLY once Nathan is asleep, he stays asleep for quite a few hours - which is why we felt pretty safe going to a movie and coming home. We didn't want to subject our babysitter to a hysterical infant. Entering our house we went upstairs where Christine was holding a sobbing Nathan.

Apparently he had woken up and cried a little (that usually means his pacifier has fallen out and he can't QUITE manage to get it back in his mouth the correct way - this is followed by a short meltdown until the pacifier is returned). Well Christine came upstairs and gave him his pacifier but Nathan, who had been perfectly happy with her putting him to bed, was VERY surprised that she was the one who answered his late night summons. WHERE was his Mummy and Daddy?? Mummy or, sometimes AND Daddy are the people who respond. Where in the world WERE they?? His crying apparently got more insistent and he was soon doing little hiccup unhappy cries. I took Nathan from Christine and it took me about 30 minutes to get him all settled back down. He needed time to see that YES Mummy was here, he was okay, he had his pacifier and all is right with the world. He passed out until early morning.

So the night wasn't bad. Nathan had no problem with a sitter putting him to bed.. he was just disconcerted that it was the sitter who came to him at night. Which, I can't say I blame him. I mean, all his life it has ONLY been his parents at night, so to suddenly have us NOT THERE.. well that would throw anyone for a loop.

This just means we need to try again and get him used to a sitter. I'm thinking next time we might try dinner AND a movie!! I KNOW.. we are CRAZY PEOPLE!!!! CRAZY!!!