Daddy Date

Last night I made plans to go out with my good friend Julia for a nice little "Girls Night Out". We met after she got off work at Suzy Wong's (where Brent, Lil and I had already eaten back in April). We had a great dinner out on their mega-relaxing patio and just enjoyed some nice, uninterrupted girl talk! Just what I needed to recharge my batteries!

So, with me out of the way it was just Lilli and Brent for the evening. First he made her do some chores, a girl's gotta earn her keep!
He prepared a nice dinner for them - chili dogs! It had 3 of Lil's favorite things covered - chili, hot dogs and cheese! She's not a big bun fan, so she eats her chili dogs "deconstructed", like any fine restaurant would serve it.He gave her a special dinner treat - he pulled her high chair in the living room and turned on Bee Movie. Normally her TV attention span is right around 12 minutes, probably in large part because we don't really watch much TV in front of her. He said she watched most of the entire movie, I think she was mesmerized by the great graphics and all the animals, and plus it was a special treat to get to see a movie!

Mmmm, chili! She's doing great feeding herself with utensils. Tonight we had spaghetti and she stuck with her fork most of the time.
And they even finished dinner with a "deconstructed" Oreo, our treat of late.
They capped off the evening with a little dancing (which we also did tonight - it works up a great little sweat and burns off the evening Oreo!) and when I got home she was sound asleep (with her pants on this time), the kitchen was clean and lunches were packed for the next day.

What more could a girl ask for?