Christmas Party

I forgot to post about the Christmas Party last week. Nick's station has a party every year and this year it was on the second of December. Sadly a bunch of the Coastie's decided or could not participate, but there was still a pretty good turn out.

Anyways, our neighbor and good friend Katie has a neice who's 16 years old and offered to babysit for us if we needed. She's a really really sweet girl. So Anne showed up last Friday at 5:30 and I ran her through everything. I showed her where the breast milk was, set the bottles up for her and took her upstairs and showed her how to change Kailey's diaper. I know she knows how to change a diaper, but I wasn't sure if she'd ever changed a cloth diaper before. Nick came home and ran upstairs and took a shower (he'd been hunting all day).

We got all dressed up and got in the truck and started heading out to dinner. As we were leaving we were talking about Anne. I was telling Nick I was more worried about Anne than I was about Kailey. Anne is the oldest of four kids and has been helping with babies for a while. But Kailey has a tendancy to get a bit fussy at around 8PM. I was worried it would happen and then Anne would be stuck with a baby crying all night. So we called Katie and told her to make sure Anne called us if anything went wrong. I had a feeling Anne would call her aunt before she would call and tell us we needed to come home.

I was telling Nick on the way to dinner that there was a tiny part of my heart pulled toward being sad we were leaving Kailey for the first time, but mostly I thought it was good for us to have a date night. He felt the same way.

We had some great food and chatted it up with some good friends while everyone opened their white elephant gifts. I had some good conversation with some of the spouses who've already had children. They wanted all the juicy new mom details and picked my brain about our little Bean!

Since Nick had been hunting all day he was pretty tired. It was written all over his face so we ditched out of going to the bar with everyone and went home. We got home around nine-ish. When we walked in Anne had Kailey in her arms and sleeping with the binky in her mouth. Kailey isn't the biggest fan of binky's. I immediately told Anne she's got the job! Anne stayed the night at Katie's house, which is right down the road. Since it was so blasted cold outside, and dark, Nick gave her a ride around the corner and then we climbed in bed and called it a night.

I think date nights are in order more often!