Date Night

A few weeks ago, Mike "asked" Lily to the Father-Daughter dance at our church. 

She's been looking forward to it ever since!

A funny story in anticipation... A couple weeks ago, I was taking her into a public restroom.  

She says at the bathroom door, "I think this is the one for girls".  

me: "Yeah, see it has a pic of a person with a dress".  

(She was wearing jeans and a T-shirt.)  

Her: "Yeah, but sometimes girls wear pants and just wear dresses to the father daughter dance or to church.". :)

As I got her ready, I felt a tiny bit of trepidation... that I want to maintain the innocence of not knowing that the world tells us beauty is based in our looks, that we don't need to compare ourselves to other girls, to feel like we "need" beautiful hair and painted nails, etc.  My mom was here so we "worked on her" together- curling hair (our hair doesn't really curl!), then a side braid, painting nails, etc.  Near the end of the process, she said "OK. I'm done!" meaning 'don't primp me up anymore'!  And I was thrilled. 

Mike asked her if she wanted his face to be smooth (shave) or scratchy (not shave).  She voted for scratchy, so he's rubbing his scratchy face on her for their pics. :)

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Peter said he was really "jealous" when he heard about Mike and Lily's date.  But my friend, Blair, was taking her son to the Lego Movie and invited us to come along.  That sweetened the deal for Peter.  He was pumped.  

And the lack of work to get him ready helped me to embrace another boy.

We went out for dinner first to a burger/dog place.  Peter's food arrived and he totally did the nodding off thing.  He ate with his eyes closed.  He had everyone laughing.

But then he totally rallied and made it through the movie, sitting in my lap, which I sorta loved.

We went back for milkshakes afterwards.  And boy were they GOOD.

Peter with bloodshot, exhausted eyes at 9pm. :)

Such a fun eve for all of us.