Brady's (and Griffey's) first babysitter

Since moving to Chicago, we have walked or driven by lots of cool bars and restaurants and thought wow that would be fun but most of these places are not exactly baby friendly places.  So it was about time to find a babysitter so that we could start going out on some dates again.  Katie joined a website called Care.com where you can search for babysitters using certain criteria and run background checks on them.  The website even allowed her to search for local babysitters that went to Miami University (our alma mater), which gave us some level of comfort that the babysitter had similar tastes in colleges and went to what we consider a good school that produces trust-worthy people.   Obviously, in this day and age you can never be too careful though, so Katie did her due diligence and interviewed her at a neutral location, ran a background check and called several references before hiring her.

After everything seemed to check out, we asked her to babysit for the first time on Saturday January 26th for a short night out (4-7pm)...thought we would start off easy.   When she first arrived, Griffey must have thought that he hired her, because he was so excited and jumping all over her and trying to get in her lap...he even went over to his toy box and pulled out several of his toys to the middle of the floor as if to show her "look, play with me".  It was really cute, but unforunately Brady was getting more of the attention because Katie had to show her the routine with Brady.  Griffey seemed ok though and just followed us around the house as we showed her where things were located.

Charlie had picked up food from Toon's, a nearby bar on Southport Ave, for us a few weeks ago and saw an advertisement for their Annual Wings Fest.  The Wings Fest was being held from 3-7pm on Saturday, so we decided we would go there for an early dinner.  Charlie being the wing connoisseur that he is was quite excited for this event and Katie was just excited in general to get out of the house and have a couple of beers.  Apparently it was only the 2nd Annual Wings Fest at this bar, but word must travel fast, because it was packed.  We got there at 4pm and could barely get in the door and purchased the last 2 tickets for the all you could eat wings buffet.  $20 for all you could eat wings and a drink ticket.  The wings were very good and they had all sorts of flavors to try like Bacon and Jalapeno.     There was also a lively band called BS Brass which was a group of 6 guys - 1 trombone, 1 trumpet, 1 sousaphone, 1 drummer and 2 saxophones.  It was quite the outfit and they even marched through the bar.  It was was a lot of fun listening to them and enjoying a couple of beers.

When we got back to the house, we were relieved to hear that Brady and Griffey had done quite well with the babysitter.  She seemed right at ease with both of our babies, so that made us feel very comfortable.