A night out

Charlie and I went to our friends' wedding last weekend and his parents came to our house to watch the boys. It was our first night away from Kai. I don't want to say I was excited to have a 24-hour break away from the kids, but......I was excited to have a 24-hour break from the kids. Actually, it's not the kids themselves that I savored the break from, but rather the responsibility of having to meet their every need every minute of the day.

We went to the wedding, which Charlie was in, and it was lovely, even though I spent the entire homily looking at pictures of the boys on my camera - and frantically trying to figure out which ones I could stand to delete in order to take some pictures of the bride and groom. Then we went to the reception and spent the entire time in the photo booth (see below). Finally we woke up the next morning and met back up with the boys at our niece's birthday party. I spotted Kai sitting on Katie's lap, and I felt like I had a magnet in my chest, pulling me towards him. I may have jumped out of the car before Charlie had even stopped driving. I made my way to Kai and scooped him up and...

...he couldn't take his eyes off of the birthday presents. He was totally unfazed by my reappearance, and so was Jett. I guess Charlie and I will have to take off for the weekend more often.