Putting Up the X-Mas Tree & Going on a Date

In the 5 years since Jalen was born we haven't gone on a date to celebrate our anniversary. At first Jalen was too young for me to leave him with anyone (.... just couldn't) and then as he got older we didn't really have any one of his two grandmothers around to babysit. Well, this year since he's becoming a bigger boy, we figured we try Jalen's babysitter, Ms. LaToya. She's babysitted before for us when Jalen's school was closed, but never in the evening ..... so this was a first. He was crying at first, talking up a storm of why we shouldn't go, or why he shouldn't stay .... but in the end, once Toya got here he didn't cry .... Last thing he asked as we were leaving was: Mama, what time are you coming home? So we told him. Well, I must say, everything went smoothly and when we got home, Jalen was sound asleep, on the couch, feet on Toya, as she was watching tv ..... so peaceful .... I was at peace ... :). We're so blessed to have Ms. Toya ... and blessed to have such a big boy already.
Oh, what did we do? Well, we have to start babysteps right, with the going out .... so we went to see a movie: The Blind Side! We loved it!!!

Jalen snapped this one right before leaving.

This was the end product of our putting up the X-Mas tree minus the tree skirt which Jalen used as a cape for a while.

Big Helper!