Tonight I left Sean for an extended period for the first time. The ward had a mother/daughter outing, to coincide with the priesthood father/son campout. The mother/daughter thing was for primary aged girls and up, so I took Bethany out for some mommy time, and left the other two with Nate. I had considered bringing Meagan with us, since she's nearly Sunbeam age, but Bethany and Meagan had been fighting all day, and I didn't want to deal with it anymore. So Bethany got some focused mommy time, and Meagan got to go out with daddy. I found out later that they went to Cici's for dinner, and had a great time.

I pumped some milk for Sean before I left, so Nate could feed him if he got hungry while I was gone. Of course I had an audience for the procedure, not that I really wanted one, but Bethany wouldn't leave. I suppose I could've forced the issue if I'd tried, but it wasn't worth the effort. She was fascinated by the whole thing. At first she really didn't like it, and kept telling me it was going to make me "get broken", but she calmed down after she saw that it wasn't doing anything to me.

Sean did fairly well with the bottle--he eventually drank all four ounces that were in it, but he was awfully gassy later. I think we'll have to work on that.