Happy Anniversary to us!! The date went swimmingly and Scout did great with the babysitter. We went to a sushi bar and then just goofed around at a few stores on the way home. We went to Bed, Bath, and Beyond, looking for a coffee pot like this one (to no avail) and then next door to Old Navy. They were having a big sale, (50% off the clearance sticker price! woot!) so we ended up getting 2 pairs of pants and a shirt for Scout; 2 hoodies for me; and a pair of pants, a hoodie, a fleece pull-over, and 8 pairs of socks for DH, all for $50. I know, I know, who goes clearance shopping at Old Navy for their anniversary? We do. Shut up.

Here are some poor quality pics from the sushi bar, taken with DH's cell phone. Dang, they're crappy.





Surprisingly, Scout went down for a nap at precisely the right time - just as the babysitter got here - and stayed asleep for 2.5 hours. After that, she drank about 5 oz of expressed breast milk, had a little bit of apple juice, ate a bunch of puffed brown rice, and played happily until we got home. The babysitter said that she didn't even fuss once. Yay! She also said that she would love to babysit for us again and anytime we want a night out to call her. You don't even know how pleased I am about that. Rather than calling her "the babysitter", I will go ahead and give her an official Making a Person blogging alias because I have a feeling we will take her up on her offer and she may be mentioned here a lot in the future. I hereby deem her "Pretend Grandma".

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