The Baranko Family: Night out on the town

Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Night out on the town

Saturday night we hit the city again, this time for a dinner out with the Hartmans. We were wild and crazy and didn't even get seated at our restaurant until 9:30 after spending a few hours at a local bar. We were totally young, hip, urban couples out on the town, it felt awesome!

Last weekend we also had cousin Jackson's 4th birthday party and Dad and Grandma Della came down for a whole day visit, too. Fun, fun!

In kid news, Claire has been calling Matt by his first name instead of "Daddy" lately. She'll walk around calling for him, "Matt! Matt! Matt!" He always says, "You can call me Dad." I swear she laughs and points at him and just pronounces him to be "Matt!". She has been waking up early in the morning but, unlike in the past, she actually has been falling back asleep with us for another hour which is such a bonus when it happens. She is still sleeping with a book in her crib every night, too, and lately is obsessed with sleeping with the recordable book from Grandpa Craig, "On the night you were born."

Speaking of Grandpa Craig, a while back Luke and I were playing outside and Luke said he wanted to show me the fishing poles from Grandpa Craig that were in the garage. I had no idea what he was talking about, since my Dad wasn't that big of a fisherman that I thought he would have given us some poles. Plus, we hadn't seen him that recently. But then Luke showed some poles to me in the garage, and I was like "Oh well, guess Dad must have given them to Matt sometime and I missed it." I asked Matt about it later, and he was puzzled. Then a little while later Matt was like "Oh wait! Craig's List! I told Luke I got those fishing poles from Craig's List!!" Hahaha! What a smarty pants. I swear you can't say anything around this kid, he's a complete sponge. We went to BW3's randomly last weekend while we were out and about. Looking at the menu I suggested a few things to Luke. He paused to consider and then said "We can't get junk food, Mom, we have to eat something healthy." Then I told him that this was the only kind of food they had here and he said "Then why did we come here, Mommy?" Touché!

Building a brick wall. He puts bricks from behind the back garage in his wheelbarrow, transfers them to the dolly, and then stacking them into this brick wall.