Date

Last night for the first time since Nina was born Adrian and I went on a real date to celebrate Adrian's birthday. I tried so hard to plan out everything for the babysitter. I got Nina nursed and in bed before she came over. Before we left we also put Sophie and Ben to bed, just so that we could be assured that everyone would be in bed and quiet in the hopes that Nina wouldn't wake up. Well that was the plan, but more on that later...

We went to the coolest fondue restaurant. We did the whole experience - we started out with a traditional cheese fondue with bread cubes, apple chunks, and raw veggies - it was ultra-yummy. Then we had a really great mushroom salad and then a meat course were you actually stew the meat yourself on little skewers in a pot of seasoned broth. It was just SO good and then they had tons of sauces to dip the cooked meat in - my favorite was the "green goddess" sauce. But the BEST part was dessert, which was a milk chocolate fondue with bits of strawberries, pound cake, brownies, marshmallows, pineapple and cheesecake. It was all just amazingly delicious. I must also say it was amazingly expensive, so we were happy that it was actually paid for by Adrian's work - they told him after finishing a project to take his wife out to dinner. So there you go - what lovely timing to coincide with Adrian's bday dinner!

All through out dinner we had no calls for help from the babysitter... So feeling good, we then went to a movie - Blades of Glory. Maybe it was late and we hadn't been to a really funny movie in a while, but both of us never laughed so hard at a movie. We thought it was hilarious. Just seeing Will Ferrel and the Napoleon Dynamite guy in those costumes... Wow... :)

I checked my phone a number of times and there were no calls at all, so we were thinking it was all a great success. First date out, Nina slept the whole time, great.... Not so. When we walked in Nina was sitting with the babysitter on the couch and had "screamed like the world was ending" (direct quote from our poor babysitter) all night. I felt so awful. I felt awful for our babysitter, a sweet girl from the ward that said that we were her favorite family to sit for (well up until last night I'm sure), and I felt awful for Nina. Apparently Nina had about an hour of sleep, then just cried and cried. When I picked her up she looked at me with such sad little eyes, you could just tell she had had a hard time. We paid the babysitter well (out of guilt really) and hope that she'll want to babysit for us again.

This morning we discovered the cause of Nina's sleeplessness, a little nub of a tooth coming in on her bottom gum. She has been SO fussy and I'm relieved that we found a cause for it. Hopefully after it comes in she'll go back to being more cheerful.

So getting out is hard to do, but since we didn't know about the horrible Nina sadness going on at home, we actually had a lovely night out. The fondue was great and the movie was funny and Adrian and I got to remember how fun it is to get out and talk and laugh... So happy bday Adrian and hurray for date nights!