Date Night!

One of my awesome running friends volunteered to watch Avery so that Mark and I could have some "us" time. Several members of my running group have done this (which only proves how awesome they all are), but Sue was persistent enough that I took her up on it.  I have this horrible habit of worrying that I'm taking too much advantage of my friends to ask them to watch my kid.

I don't understand Mommy.  Why would you want time without me around?

So, Friday night, I got dressed up in something other than running clothes and Sue came over at 7pm to take over baby duties.  

Mark and I

I felt bad leaving Sue with Avery since the kiddo had a bad nap day, and I feared she would demonstrate some of her Angry Avery behavior for Sue.

Don't worry Mommy, I save Angry Avery just for you and Daddy.

My husband and I went to a fancy smancy steak house for a fancy dinner - our Anniversary is next Saturday, and since we'll be in Colorado skiing, we decided this was our celebratory dinner. Unfortunately, I'm a bad blogger and the steak was just too tasty, so I only took a picture of our partially eaten desserts and our wine glasses.

Chocolate lava cake and creme brulee, both delicious!

And then, my husband and I demonstrated what truly wild people we are....we came home from dinner and were both in bed before 10pm.  In our defense, we haven't been getting much sleep lately, and I had an early morning group run scheduled for the next morning.

Avery apparently went to bed by 7:45pm...and did so without a fuss.  I swear she KNOWS.  All my friends assure me that she is too young to have already figured out things like cause and effect, but I think they're all liars.  She also slept through the night (well, until 5:45am, which is actually much later than she's been sleeping all week).  When I saw Sue this morning at our group run, I informed her that she was required to come put Avery to bed every night for now on.  

Well....Attempting to catch this cat is so exhausting!

What a great Friday night!  Mark and I really enjoyed having some time for just us - although we only made it about 20 minutes before we devolved into talking about the kiddo.  Ha!  I believe I even have enough suckers volunteers among my awesome friends, that we should be able to make date night a more regular thing - how awesome is that???


Did I use the word awesome too many times in this post?


Any suggestions for future date nights??


When was the last time you had a date night?  Where'd you go?