1st date

Daisiesinmygarden

DH and I left the baby with my BFF and had a grown up date. Ok, well, we went to the movies.

We went to see 2012. Excellent CG, typical cheesy disaster movie story line. However, I do love me some John Cusack. Also, the little girl in it was precious. I just wanted to see all the stuff get blown up, fall down and get flooded on the big screen. However, I was highly disturbed by the people who brought really, REALLY little children to this movie!

This was her first stay with someone she doesn't live with (she sees her once or twice a week). I have left her with DH for an hour (once or twice for 2 hours) while I ran errands or went on runs and for about 20 or 30 minutes with my boys a few times to make quick trips to the store. 

It was sooo strange. Even DH commented on the way to the theater that it was so weird to not have her in the car with us. It was only a 5 minute drive, but it was still strange. But, we had a really nice time together.

nisems

Yay for your grown up date!  I don't understand people who bring babies or really little kids to the movies.  Someone was telling me that I could bring DD to the movies with me.  Yeah, she is little enough that she would probably sleep, but I would be so freaked out that she would disturb someone, not to mention I think it is way too loud in a movie theater for a baby!  

Peppernut

We have a friend who keeps pressuring us to leave the baby with her so we can go have a date night.  We keep explaining that we feel it's a bit early and we aren't comfortable leaving her alone just yet, at least not for a whole evening.  It's good to see we're not alone in that preference!

I don't even see bringing very little kids to a G movie, let alone something for grownups.  I figure if you're counting your child's age in weeks or months, it's too early. 

mama.bear

That is so important to have time with your honey. Plus, it feels really good to come home and see your sweet bundle doesn't it?

carladillon

I was going to post about this too-DH & I had our first postpartum date last night. MIL has been here since week one, so she watched her. We went to the place we had our first date two years ago and had sushi follwed by Cheesecake Factory dessert to go! I was nervous as she had her first bottle and I didn't know how she would do-but she did fine. We talked about LO all night anyway-couldn't wait to get home to see her though!

robynlesley

Yay for date night!  My DH and I plan to go on a few in December (my aunt & uncle offered to babysit). DH wants to see Sherlock Holmes.  We need to go to a nice dinner one night, too.

pahokie

Yay for a date!  It still feels a bit odd to have both of us in the car without DD.  Does Christmas shopping count as a date?  SIL offered to babysit, so DH and I went to lunch and got a bunch of shopping done.  Not the most romantic, but we needed to take care of it.

edbetsy1

Good for you and DH.  Glad you had a nice time.  Yesterday my mom offered to watch the kids, she loves to babysit so that DH and I could go out.  Yeah, ok we sat in the car in front of her house wondering where or what we should do::cickets in the background::we ended up going to Big Lots had lunch at Sonic and went to pick them up.  I kept looking back at the car seat forgetting Nate wasn't with us.