First night out…

…for Jack and for us!

For the first time in Jack’s entire life, we went out and left him with someone else. All night.

Basically, we left the dog and Jack with his Grandparents whilst we went out with ten pin bowling and for food with our friends, Phil and Lucy.

Not-so-basically, it was a bit of a wonder if he’d be ok, as he’s been a bit of a wuss recently with regards to his mum. Recently, he’s had a cold that some horrid person gave him (me), so he’s been sleeping badly too, as in he’s been waking up a lot and crying when he normally sleeps right through the night. So, in the back of our minds, we weren’t sure if he was going to cry their house down all night whilst we slept in peace and quiet!

Plus, on the other side of things, we weren’t sure how we’d feel about him being out all night, as new parents ‘n all. So, as new as it was for Jack staying out, it was for us too.

As it turned out, it went really well, for all of us!

We left Jack at Claire’s folks’ house at 6pm, putting him to bed just before we left. Claire left her mum a ‘do this at this time’ sheet, telling them when to feed him, when to give him his milk, etc in the following morning. It might sound a little odd to do that, but it worked out really well, as it gave her folks a cheat-sheet to keeping Jack quiet/happy in the morning, from 6am onwards! Claire left me a cheat-sheet before when Jack and I spent the day together, and it makes it sooooo much easier to be expecting to feed him at a given time, rather than to try and ‘read’ him and see what he wants. Claire’s definitely the expert on Jack and she really does know him and his moods, timings etc. She’s dead good.

Anyway, we were almost putting bets on as to the time of the night that we get told that had woken up… but he’s been sleeping really well for the past couple of days, so in theory, he should be ok.

As I said earlier, Claire and I went out and met Phil and Lucy at the Bowling venue and later went out for a meal at a Beefeater restaurant, which was all good. We still couldn’t be out all night (not that we ever did before, really) because Claire is still expressing Booby-Juice for Jack, so she had to do her pumping when we got back.

But, getting back to an empty house without the baby and the dog, was brilliant. It was almost like we had stepped back 2 years or so before all this happened.

Having said that, it was more of a novelty that we were by ourselves; we did miss the fact that Jack, and the dog even, weren’t in the house and weren’t there in the morning, making the usual noise and commotion, etc.

Jack seemed happy enough and Claire’s folks enjoyed having him. He did wake up at 6am exactly (which I’m still trying to work out how he knows what time it is!!) and they’ve been entertaining him all morning until Claire went over there at around 11-ish. (I had to go out this morning) but he seemed like it was ok and everything.

Good fun all round then?