Grandma is in town this weekend, and she bravely offered to let Jill and I have a date night while she stayed with Noah. Even though she saw how much of a Klingon he’s become, and he was fussy with a cold all afternoon, she let the offer stand.

We ducked out for an amazing meal at a restaurant we hadn’t yet visited. Our waitress — and the whole staff, actually — were funny and snarky and made us feel old, but provided excellent service and good recommendations.

Then we went to see Little Miss Sunshine. Since my entire childhood involved VW campers, including one that, like the one in the movie, required pushing in order to start, the movie gave me some very funny flashbacks.

Possibly the funniest movie moment, though, came as we were buying our ticket. Without asking, the ticket cashier gave us the “student” rate. Heh! Here we are, thirty-something MOMS, apparently looking like college students to the high school student taking our money.

We’re obviously going back to that theater!  But more seriously, the movie was full of surprisingly good performances, especially from the little girl and the teenage boy. Only the Mom character was underdeveloped and a little disappointing. And there are splendid and astonishing plot twists.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch….

Grandma dealt with a screaming, melting-down, hysterical, where-the-hell-are-my-parents baby for more than 2 hours. He finally crashed at 9:15 pm.
He woke up at 10:30 and again at 1:30 am, and at 1:30, he wouldn’t go back to sleep. Eventually, I was too tired to stay sitting up with him, so I brought Noah back to bed with us. That way, all of us could enjoy the fun of being kicked and cried at and played with and not able to sleep for most of the rest of the night. I think he got a couple of 2 hour naps between 2 and 7:45 am, but we? Not so much.

What a weekend, at least so far. Oh yeah, and he hasn’t had a poopy diaper since Thursday. That’s not abnormal, per se, but we suspect he’s uncomfortable, and we dread the coming explosion. (We were hoping it would come on Grandma’s watch last night, but no luck.)