Hurricane Season Ends

November 30th is the traditional end of hurricane season and for the second year in a row we didn't get any uninvited visitors.  We will be pulling down our hurricane kit and using the water we had stored over the next several weeks.  These next couple of months are when Cayman truly is a Caribbean paradise and we plan to slowly introduce Arianna to the various things a young baby can do down here during these next several months when it is great to be outside.  Arianna has yet to establish anything remotely like a routine, she eats and sleeps at various and inconsistent times and in general is a newborn who is acting like, well, a newborn.  I have two more weeks of leave before I return to work on the 14th.  My Mom arrives next week for a visit and this weekend we have a friend watching Arianna for a few hours while we go see the new Harry Potter movie.  We found with Katie's relatives that we were OK going out and running errands and leaving Arianna with her grandparents and great grandparents. This will be the first time we leave Arianna with someone other than immediate family so we will see how, as parents, we handle leaving our little girl alone with someone who isn't a relative. It is only 4 hours on a Saturday afternoon but it should tell us how much we are comfortable with finding a sitter and having a date night/afternoon once or twice a month.