Temporary leave from Romper Room

Last night B and I took a much needed evening to ourselves and went on a date for his birthday (which was May 3). E stayed with her godparents and had lots of fun with friend, Nate, who is 10 months older than her. [It's always fun watching the two together because our baby girls will be 10 months apart (more or less) and this is where we will be next year at this time.] It was hard leaving her (she was crying and reaching out for me), but we were running late for our reservations and had to take off.

We went to Amici's in Downtown Old Carrollton. The atmosphere is cozy and romantic and the food was spectacular. The place is BYOB so B brought a few beers to drink since we couldn't exactly share a bottle of wine. We topped it off by sharing the most amazing tiramisu. Yum.

We had not, honestly, been on a date (by ourselves with no friends and no children) since before E was born. It was so great to finally have a moment to ourselves where we weren't hurried by housework, dissertations or sounds coming through the baby monitor. What a wonderful evening. I think all couples should do this (way more often than we do). Of course we talked about E and J the whole time and eventually left speedily when we realized we missed E and wanted to catch her before she fell asleep. It's strange how parenthood changes you. We walked in the door after picking E up and chatting for awhile with her god parents, turned off all the lights downstairs and decided to turn in for the night. As we were brushing our teeth I told B to look at the clock...it was 9:45!!! We about fell over laughing. It felt like 12 AM or later. What party animals we are!