Friday night, Courtney and I got to go on an Ollie-less date. Mom, Dad and Sandi took care of Ollie while we were supposed to take in dinner and a movie. We did OK with dinner (Applebee’s on a gift card — yes!), but show times for the movies we wanted to see weren’t until well after 9, which would have meant one or both of us sleeping in a public place. So we ran a couple of errands and headed home to find Ollie in bed, Mom watching TV and Dad and Sandi downstairs Guitar Hero-ing.

Saturday night, the three of us headed off to a wedding at 300 Spring, where shared a table with the legendary Gerald Ruth and his wife. Thankfully the ceremony was short, as I had to spend most of it in the bathroom with a very vocal Ollie. We passed the time with another dad and his 18-month-old girl who would much rather have been with her mommy.

Sunday afternoon, we joined my family for dinner at the ever-fulfilling Claudia Sanders Dinner House in Shelbyville. On the buffet: fried chicken, roast chicken breasts, pulled pork barbecue, roast beef and pork tenderloin. That’s just the meats! Our lively (except with the bread basket) server complained about the kitchen staff being “lazy pieces of trash today” because the Mexico/USA soccer game was on TV. She told us they had run a cable from the upstairs bar into the kitchen just to watch the game. Oliver nearly ate his weight in corn pudding, green beans and rolls.

Pretty good weekend.