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Caden's adventure with babysitting

Caden had his first real babysitting experience last night. He's been watched by people he knows before but for the first time last night he went to a house he may or may not remember and was babysat by people he didn't know. We went out for supper with our friends, Todd and Lindsay. Lindsay's 2 brothers and sister in law were watching their kids and volunteered to watch Caden as well. We figured it would be good for all of us so we went. He's old enough now that it might start getting more difficult for him so we wanted him to have some of these experiences so he'd know they were fun.

We were gone for almost three hours. The question of course is how did it go. He is really sociable so I hoped that all would go well but worried a little that he would realize we were gone and get sad, possibly even do some crying, maybe screaming. Who knows these things?

Well, as it turns out he had a blast. I guess a couple of hours in he looked sad and like he was going to cry for a moment and then he was happy again. Just like that. When we got back he smiled at us but didn't burst into tears of relief or anything. He eventually made his way over to us and that was that.

What a relief to me to have it go so well. Wouldn't it be nice if that meant he'd always react that way? I know it'll get harder but I'm grateful for a good first time out. Thanks to Evan, Craig and Nicole for being such good sitters!

Oh - and the 4 of us had lots of fun out without the kids :)

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