Thursday Night Dinner with Violet Minus Melissa

Thursday night dinner with Dad was a little exciting this week. Melissa had a meeting and couldn't come but Jamie came and brought Violet. During dinner we did our regular ask Violet - "where's Michael", "where's Grandpa", "where's Grandma", "where's Ashley" - and Violet points everyone out. Cute, huh? Then Dad says "where's Momma"? All eyes shot to Violet hoping she wouldn't realize Melissa wasn't there. We dodged a bullet there. I don't think Violet was paying attention.

It's not easy entertaining a 17 month old in a restaurant. But Longhorn Steakhouse has a waiting bench in their lobby offering Teddy Graham snacks for kids. That killed about 5 minutes.