Afterwards we picked up Joe and went home to get cleaned up and work on some things before dinner. Joe worked in the garage and Joli helped me make a skirt! This was very excited for me. Although I have tried to make clothing before this was the first time that it actually came out looking like an article of clothing!! It was somewhat fancy sewing if I do say so myself!
Once we were all done playing. We all went out to dinner. We decided to try some place new and went to Claim Jumper. The food was absolutely amazing. I had something called Black Tie Pasta. It was bow tie noodles with blackened chicked and spinach tortellini, all covered in some type of wonderfully amazing cream sauce. It was sooooooooo good. The salad bar was pretty good too. My favorite thing about it was that they had several types of pasta salad that we could give to Joli, and she seemed to just be in heaven. They were also amazing about the baby. They brought us a high chair and a disposable place mat that attached to the table so we didn't have to worry about cleaning the table for her to eat. Then when she was done and there was food EVERYWHERE, they just smiled and played with the baby, telling us it was no big and they've never seen a happier baby. And Joli was so happy the entire time. From the moment we got out of the car she was smiling and laughing and bouncing up and down. She didn't cry or scream once. Even when we went to Barnes and Noble afterwards, she crawled around in the kids books like it was a candy store. To top the evening off, as we were getting ready to leave the restaurant, the waiter brought over a slice of carmel apple cheesecake that Joe had secretly asked him to bring us when he "went to the bathroom". It was very sweet.
When we got home I was thinking about how wonderful our evening had been when Joe took Joli off my hands and bathed her and put her to bed. That in itself would have been enough for me, but what Joe said afterwards just made my night. First I have to explain that Joli has a really hard time shutting off to go to sleep. So every nap time or bed time is an epic battle. She kicks and screams and hits, and then screams a little louder. Then, right at the moment that you think that she's probably going to lose her voice, she passes out. So when Joe went in to put her to bed, he started out normally by reading her a story and then once she became uninterested, layed down with her. That's when it started. After a few minutes I hear him say "Babe, how do you do this?". So I said "Hunny, you have to roll her up like a little taquito so she can calm down." He did something that resembled wrapping her up and then layed his arm across her so she couldn't get free. After five or ten minutes Joli stopped screaming and went to sleep. I waited a few minutes and then crept in to make sure all was well. I tapped Joe on the foot and then helped him get his arm out from underneath her. I looked over and he is face down in the bed going "Oh she wouldn't stop screaming." That's when I said "Yeah and I get to do that three to four times a day." That's when he said it. The thing that told me that he finally appriciated what I do. He said "Oh it sucks to be you." Although I really do love being a mom, it was the best anniversary present a mommy could ask for!
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