First night away

This past weekend Margaret and I ran in the Baltimore relay.  To do this we knew we had to figure out some plan for watching Josh while we were running.  Since it is a relay we considered trying to make it so we would hand him off while each of us ran.  We quickly realized that would be too stressful and difficult so we decided to see if Josh could stay with my mom and Don.  They agreed and we were all set for Josh's first night away from us.

On Friday night we brought everything Josh would need to their house and set it all up (enough for a small army).  We let him play at the house for a little bit and then Margaret fed him and put him to bed in his portable crib.  Then came the hard part - Margaret and I had to leave.  We were not concerned about Josh being in good hands.  Obviously my mom and Don have raised kids successfully and they both have taken care of Josh before.  We left notes about what to do if Josh is upset (he has been teething).  The bigger problem was how Margaret and I would deal with leaving Josh.  Margaret felt bad about doing something for her (the race) and leaving Josh.  I was concerned Josh would be difficult and make my mom and Don miserable.  We both gathered our strength and finally left.

For the first time in over nine months, we woke up Saturday morning without the possibility of hearing crying.  Unfortunately we couldn't sleep in because of the race but it was a bit strange to not have Josh around.  I was glad to have not gotten a 3 am phone call that Josh was hysterical and would not calm down.  We ran in the race and talked to my mom, she said everything was going fine.  After everyone on our team was done with the race we headed back to Virginia to pickup our boy.

When we got there Josh was smiling and happy.  My mom said he only cried for a minute the whole time and that was because he was approaching nap time.  Josh was very happy to see us and we were glad he did so well.  We greatly appreciated my mom and Don watching Josh for us and we're glad he was so well behaved.

Getting trained well at Grandma's