Saturday, November 21, 2009

Romance

So tonight we had some romance *happy sigh*. Just like I missed sleep, it would appear I missed romance too!

Over the last few months I have been proof reading a good friend's thesis. As a thank you he gave me a fair amount of cash to be spent explicitly on romantic dinners with my hubby. This is the first weekend in forever we've had the whole weekend to ourselves and this morning I decided tonight was the night. A quick call to our friends down the road who agreed to host our sleeping bub, a reservation at our favourite local restaurant and we were ready to go.

Cate went down without a peep at our mates' house and we walked to the restaurant from their house (yup, we live in a small town - it has its perks!). And it just 'worked' for us tonight. We had heaps of things to discuss. We were tripping over ourselves to share stories which was fantastic - there was so much to say. We spent a large amount of time discussing what our yet-to-be-conceived baby will be named (*blushes*) and we caught up on what each other had been doing during the last few weeks. But best of all was the conversation I shared with my husband about what happened today.

Today Cate said her very first word IN CONTEXT. Not just babble, not a random 'mumma' whilst pointing at the grass but an actual real word. Any guesses?

She looked at her daddy, pointed and said 'Dadda'. (cue AWWWWWWWWWWWWs right about now).

Listening to Justin recall this incredible event with tears in his eyes almost brought me to my knees. It would appear my husband thinks being a father is the very best thing that has ever happened to him.

So we toasted each other with some very nice wine, enjoyed a delicious meal and wandered back holding hands in the rainy dark to collect our soundly sleeping baby.

Definitely a romantic evening tonight.

2 comments:

  1. How gorgeous! Cate is such a cutie and it sounds like you had a wonderful evening :)

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  2. Thanks Alicia, we did. It was bloody lovely to be in a restaurant for an extended period of relaxed time!!!

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