Let The Baby Sitting Begin

I'm sure it's one of those days that every mother dreads: the first time you leave your precious child with a baby sitter. Lucky for us, we have great friends that are great people. Yesterday was our 7th anniversary, so we nabbed some tickets to the Charlie Hall concert that was in town. Then we called in a favor from our friends. They were more than happy to have the opportunity, and we were glad to find someone that was. Of course I had to leave my camera for them so that I could post pictures when I blogged about it, so here goes.

Here's Brandee moments after she took Izzie out of the car seat.


Brandee's mom, Shelly, with Izzie. Shelly loves Izzie to death. I think we'll have to start making it a point to swing by their house a little more often. They only live a couple of blocks from us.


Here's Brandee's brother, Mark, with Izzie:


Mark said that his favorite parts of baby sitting Izzie were the burps and farts. Before we took Izzie over there we gave Mylacon (helps babies pass gas) because she was fussy and we've learned the "I have gas" fuss. Finally, someone else is proud of Izzie's ability to aw a crowd by passing gas.

Apparently she fussed a little bit, so here's Shelly burping Izzie. Notice how Izzie doesn't even care. She's such a relaxed baby. She always just hangs out and looks around without a care in the world.


We dropped her off at 6:30pm and headed to the concert. I'll admit that we were both a little nervous. I think it was more for them coping with Izzie's banshee cry should she feel the need to yield it. Luckily she didn't. After the concert we went to Dairy Queen for some ice cream. Lynnell scarfed hers down because she was very anxious to get back to her baby, so I had to start scarfing about half way through mine too. At 9:15pm we were reunited with our precious baby. We made it a whole 2 hours and 45 minutes. Maybe next time we'll try for 3 hours.

Turns out there weren't any problems. Izzie fussed a little bit, but after the above mentioned burping everything went fine. Judging by the pictures, I would have to agree.

I saved this picture for last because the onesie says it all.



Thanks guys for watching our baby girl!