No Me Time

Instead I got some "we time". Jason leaves for Redmond tomorrow (Sunday) and I was looking for a brief parenting break to gear up for my 3 days of being completely on duty. So, Jason and I ditched the boys at my mom and Lauren's and headed out on a date. We started talking about it with Easton this morning. It helped that we were just there and had some fun games and toys we could talk about them playing while "Mommy and Daddy went bye-bye". He understood and was fine. He looked like he might get sad right when we were telling him goodbye and he said he didn't want me to leave but I reminded him that he'd be happy and have fun and we'd come back and get him. And he did great. They both did.




Cori will also be happy to hear that we kept D on his schedule letting him get his 2 (actually 2+) hour nap in this morning before we left and then having my mom put him down and keep him down for another 2+ while we were out. Worked great. He was a little late getting in bed tonight but it was still before 8. Not too bad.

So, Jason and I headed to Southlands, a newish shopping "district" near my mom's. It's actually where that P.B. Loco place is too... Anyway, we headed over there for a big, late lunch at a hibachi place and paid way too much money. They charged $7 to share an entree that already cost $23. Oh well. We didn't want two $23 dollar entrees with leftovers that would've spoiled in the car. My pina colada made me feel better about it all. :)

Then we did a bit o' browsing in the shops...I can't help myself from looking at kids clothes even when they're not with me. Easton is in need of some pants that will fit his waist this fall/winter so I'm constantly on the lookout. I need to learn to sew to take in the waistbands a bit. Anyway...did some browsing and then just stopped and sat on a bench for a bit to enjoy doing nothing at all for a change while we waited for our movie:


We watched the kids frolicking in the same fountains that soaked Easton the other day and we headed to a movie after seeing an example of some bad parenting. It made us sad so we left. The teen parent we saw today was one reason teen parents have a bad rap in general. Anyway....

We saw The Bourne Ultimatum which we both enjoyed. I had seen the first one only and Jason hadn't seen either of the others but we liked it quite a lot. Sometimes we have a hard time picking movies. Now I think we'll add the first two to our Netflix queue. And perhaps to my reading list too.

So after the movie we went to pick up the boys only to find they weren't there. They had all gone to the park so we went to find them and found them on their way back:




Look how happy Easton is to see us again:



Dalton is pretty much always happy anyway.

We got the report (love those!) that both did really well and all that and we headed home. Both boys actually stayed awake during the ride home (no nap for Easton again today...on purpose) and they both went to sleep super-easily once we got home tonight. Woo hoo!

I'm looking for them to sleep in tomorrow which really only means past 7 these days. E (and we) made it till 7:30 today and Dalton till 8. Ahhhhh. Dalton had 3 night wakings last night in his 13 hours of sleep. One was before I went to bed and the other two he got some milk. He didn't eat much before bed at all last night so I felt guilty and gave him his milkings. But he slept great otherwise. Sad that 3 wakings isn't half bad around here.

Anyway, Jason's working on some school before his trip so I should find something to do too. First stop: pumping! What fun I have!