Ryan's first overnight

Two of my wonderful friends are renewing their vows in two weeks. Saturday night we had a party in their honor – a casino night. It was lots of fun! Steve even won 3^rd place at the end of the night and got a gift card to Chipotle Anyway, the party started at 7pm, which is Ryan’s bedtime. I didn’t want Steve to have to stay home because all we have together are the weekends and he needs to get out of the house sometimes too! So.… we got a babysitter. My mom! At first we planned on just having her come over and stay at our house until we got home. But then we all decided he’d take a trip to her house and stay the whole night. AHHH!!!

I was one nervous mama. Ryan had never been away from us for a whole night… I didn’t know how he’d handle it. He’s used to sleeping in bed next to his mama! He also nurses like… 2 – 3 times a night. Really, I was a bit more worried about my mom than about Ryan – if he was up all night, how my mom would be feeling the next day, haha.

Before she came to pick him up, I was explaining to him what was happening… I wanted him to know that we’d pick him up the next morning and that we weren’t leaving him and we’d be back. I started tearing up… I felt so bad! I was so worried for him! I didn’t want him to wonder what happened to me.

The good news? He survived!! The great news? He did AWESOME! He slept in my mom’s bed next to her – I told her that’d probably be easiest for him (and her)! And he didn’t wake up until 3:30am. She fed him and he ate a full 3 oz, went right back to sleep, and woke up for the day around 6am. He didn’t get as much sleep as he does at home, so he has been pretty tired today – taking wonderfully long naps but otherwise he’s doing very well.

So here’s me: OMG he doesn’t need me?! Haha. But no worries – my mom put him down this morning for his first nap of the day (we didn’t go pick him up till like 10am) and she said he was saying “mamamama” and “dadadadada” — awww!!! He wanted us! And when we both went to pick him up, he was soo happy. And I felt like I hadn’t seen him in FOREVER. He’s such an awesome lil boy.