Our last DINK date!

This may be a bit of reversionist history, as I'm actually writing this on 3/8, but it's all for a good cause. Jude's been around for 2 weeks now, but I'd like to write some of this down so we don't forget. For Jude's sake, let's hope I can remember everything.

Amanda started feeling her contractions around 4 pm today. They were just different enough for her to know that they weren't the same as she had been feeling over the past few weeks. These were more regular in timing, coming about 12 minutes apart.

We had been talking about going out for dinner and a movie and, by this time, were fairly certain it would be our last date without a sitter. We made it over to Steak-and-Shake around 5:30 pm for their $2.99 double steakburger and fries deal. I had 2.

Afterwards, we caught the 6:50 pm showing of Juno at the new movie theater in town. Juno is a story about a high school girl who gets pregnant and has to decide between abortion and giving her baby up for adoption. What a great movie . . .great topic targeted at the right age group -- and super funny! My favorite quote was when Juno found out that she was pregnant. After buying her third pregnancy test, the drugstore clerk says to her, "That ain't no etch-a-sketch. This is one doodle that can't be un-did, homeskillet."

At the end of the movie, she delivers the baby. There's nothing like watching a movie about a pregnant teenager to get you in the mood to give birth. I highly recommend this route. For Amanda, all throughout the movie she was timing her contractions by looking at the clock on my cell phone. Three to 4 minutes apart. Yikes!