Since DD2 came along my parents have taken DD1 out on her own a few times and had her over night to make her feel special. She has loved her days out without the restriction a new baby brings and she likes staying at Nanny and Grandad's house where they make a bit of a fuss of her. My parents also love it and ask when they can next look after her. MIL often says "if you need us to do anything you just need to say", up to now we haven't and I always get the impression she's talking about housework (she has said if you need me to do some washing or run the vacuum cleaner round etc), but what would be more helpful is if they took DD1 out for a nice day as I think she'd love it and that way I can more easily do the housework myself. But they've never taken her out on their own and they've never offered to. They have looked after her a few times for appointments but it's always been at our house and once when I suggested they could take her to the park if they wanted to on one of the days they were looking after her they said they probably wouldn't do that. Would I be unreasonable to ask them to take her out for the day? I would offer to pay for entry to somewhere of their choice and supply food etc.