kick in the pants and boy dreams

Jim and I had the distinct joy and total pleasure of taking our Luke out on a "date" last Sunday.

Cooper and Jeb were gone at church camp, and my parents took Anna and Emma Kate to visit them for an overnight.

Alone, with one child.  

Be still my heart!

And Luke?  He was in heaven.  Truly and completely.  It was all about him, and together we crafted the evenings events.  

Stop one, Twin Cities Reptile.  Oh yes, that is true

Although I clearly did not chose the first excursion because I had to keep repeating over and over in my head, "these animals are in cages, these animals are in cages,  the cages are secure,  the cages are secure."

Doesn't Luke look happy and hopeful?!  Clearly he hasn't absorbed the truth of who his mother is.  He is hot to trot for a tortoise.  Yes, they live 125 years.  And they can live outside and not even bother you once they are older, reports Luke.  Riiiiiiiiight.  Tortoises and Minnesota winters go well together.

We are not even going to write of the albino snake filling a huge glass cage.  Or the refrigerators full of dead rats for food.  Or the chinchillas with their scratchy little claws housed right next to the glass enclosures of pink-eyed long-tailed rats that were alive.

Moving right along...

Sushi on the veranda.  Perfect summer night.  My guy right next to me and my Luke across.  H.e.a.v.e.n.

Luke was beside himself that we were taking him out for sushi.  And we promised him he could eat as much as he wanted!  Wide-eyed with wonder, he was.

Kick in the pants roll?  Oh, yum.  We ordered two by the time all was said and done, and could have kept going.  They were SO yum.

Luke ordered a "pop" {Minnesotan for soda}, and ended up getting two from the waiter.  He thought he was all that and more.  It was really funny.  When asked if he could drink them both we were the bastions of calm and cool.  

"Of course", I uttered.

To his complete astonishment.  Note to readers: he didn't even finish one! 

We finished up with a movie.  3-D.  We never to 3D.  Luke was incredulous by this point.

Oh, it was so fun!  Not the 3D movie, just the time alone with our son.  

Cheers to an evening to remember!