A night away from Mommy

Caleb stayed with Daddy during all the "yardcrawling" so I wouldn't have to drag him in and out of the carseat a million times. That evening though, he got his own special outing - a night with Na Na and Pop pop (which is what he is now calling my parents). Caleb has stayed overnight with his grandparents on various occasions but never without his mommy. This was the first night in his 16-month life I'd been away from him the entire night. It was difficult in some ways to let him go by himself and break the routine, but it was also a nice opportunity for some rest and quality time with Dave.

After I packed his suitcase, Caleb had to unpack it and
check the contents.

Don't worry! He's a good boy and packed it back
up for Mommy.

Ready for fun!

As soon as we got there, Ginger greeted him at the door.

He quickly made himself at home like he always does.
He loves this old bouncy horse my parents bought me for my
first Christmas so he had to try that out immediately.

What did Dave and I do with our free time? We went to watch the Smurf movie at the Alamo. The Alamo is a theater in Winchester, VA that serves dinner while you watch your movie. We'd never been there before so we thought we'd see what all the talk was about, plus our original plan to go to the drive-in got rained out. We chose the Smurfs for nostalgic reasons (and because most everything else looked sketchy). However, as we sat there waiting for the movie to begin, Dave asked why we sent our kid to his grandparents' and then went to a movie full of kids - the irony!

Afterwards we stopped for the $1 hot fudge sundaes at McDonalds and headed home to play a couple games of Othello before crashing by 10 pm. We slept in until about 8 am the next morning without interruptions from a little boy.

Caleb did wonderfully at his grandparents. When I showed up the next day, I expected him be super excited to see me like he does when I leave him on occasion during the day. Instead, he looked at me calmly and said "boo." Then, he went on about his business in no hurry to get home.