MY TWO BESTEST BFF TEAM.

Milo: Yo Gabba Gabba concert tee / Gap Kids pants (home pants we called them.) / Gap Kids Superman long sleeve

Matilda: MUJI long sleeve / Mothercare UK pants

Pictures like these make me so happy. These days, when the both of them interact with one another, it is the best thing of my day. I can't stop smiling and I wish at that moment, everyone I know can come over and witness the cuteness between the two. They are my team and they are each other's team. They are the perfect team. They are each other's eyes and ears. Literally. Milo got the super hearing power (with his only one seeing low vision eye) and Matilda has super vision power (with her hearing loss).

Milo and Matilda are what I do each and every day. I can count how many times out of both their lives that I left them with someone else. It's almost never. It's not that I don't choose to or I am a crazy overprotected parent, it's just that I like to hang out with them and there's really nothing that important that I have to go to. My hubby and I probably had 4 to 5 date nights since we had Milo and that was almost 4 years ago. We had talked about how it would be nice to go on dates and get someone to come and babysit, but we thought why go through all that (or to bother my parents when they are in town) when we can take them out with us because we like to hang out with them. But recently, I have given this more thoughts and how it would be very nice to go on a date with my hubby even if it's just a quick dinner, a nice stroll around town or a quick lunch picnic. Because seriously, I think we need that. My parents were in town and we went on a quick dinner date and it was really nice. Really nice. It made me feel refresh and made me appreciate him more in ways that I haven't because we never take time out for ourselves. But here's the thing, it is not super easy to find a babysitter and even if I do, I need to train this babysitter on all the extra things that he/she will need to do to take care of Milo in case of medical emergency like his peanut allergy, his asthma, and his prosthesis and how to take it out if it starts to bother him. Would that be too much to ask from a kid, assuming that the babysitter is a kid like it used to be? Are there rules out there about babysitting special needs children in the world of The Babysitter Club*? With all these questions and somewhat concerns, that's why we never really made an effort to search for one. It's not because I won't trust the babysitter, it just seems like it's too much to ask for an hour or two. Anyone? (I wish I can ask the teacher assistant in his Early Start Program to babysit because he knows them. But how do you ask them that? It seems like of weird. Right?)

*The Babysitter Club. I am speaking of the series that I read when I was growing up. Do kids still read this or do they have other updated version of this like the Twilight coolness of Babysitter Club.