Night Out

Saturday night was our first time hiring a babysitter and getting out of the house with our friends. In the past we either took Max with us, or Tayler watched Max when she lived with us. Max doesn't like new people and it takes him forever to warm up so I was a little worried on how it would go. We found a really good babysitter that was referred by a friend. She came to the house a couple weeks ago to meet Max and she brought with her some hot wheels and play-doh. Talk about coming prepared. This girl knew what she was doing and that made me feel better.

Come Saturday night Max was happy to show Ms. Diana a new toy that he recently received. He was not freaking out when she got to the house, but then again we built it up to make it a big deal that Diana was coming to play with him. Then...it was time to leave. Max lost it (like I expected him to) and we had to just walk out of the house. I did feel bad that we had to just leave like that, but it was for the best. On the way to our friend's house I checked the Nest to see if Max was calming down. He wasn't. He was curled up in the corner just bawling his eyes out...but only for 10 minutes. Diana then had him playing a mustache game and hot wheels that she brought with her. In no time he was having fun and that made us happy.

While Max was at home making a friend out of Diana, we were having a wine tasting party at our friend's house. It was a lot of fun! I "won" an in-home wine tasting party at a charity event we went to back in April and we decided to have it at our friend's house. After the hour of wine tasting you could purchase bottles if you would like. Of course after an hour of tasting 8 different bottles of wine the wallets were very easy to open.

We had cheese and cracker boards for the wine tasting. Following that, I put out a crostini bar that turned out better than I thought. It was a lot of fun that people got to assemble their own crostini's. Plus it took some of the work away from me assembling all of the crostini's. We then made our own pizzas that our friend's grilled in their egg.

One Uber ride later and we were home safe and sound to relieve the babysitter. Max survived his first babysitter experience and he was talking about Diana a lot in the morning, how much fun they had and all the activities they did. I will definitely be hiring her again.