It seems that Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown have decided to dial down the crazy. The two were seen dining together at Joe’s Crab Shack in Alpharetta, Georgia on Tuesday night. Let’s pray to God it’s platonic, which appears to be the case. TMZ has some pictures of them where they both look a little… “disheveled” with the caption “From the look of this pic, crabs aren’t the only thing that may have been stoned!” I think they just look the way most of us look without makeup and good lighting. Apparently the two are trying to stay on good terms for the sake of their daughter, Bobbi Kristina, 14.

WHITNEY HOUSTON celebrated her 44th birthday two days early on Tuesday night (07Aug07) on a date with her ex-husband BOBBY BROWN. The couple dined at Joe’s Crab Shack in Alpharetta, Georgia, where fellow diners report the former Mr. and Mrs. Brown seemed “very happy”. Houston filed for divorce from Brown last year (06). The split became official in April (07). Since the split, Houston has reportedly been dating toyboy Ray J., while Brown has been romantically linked to music video vixen-turned-author Karrine Steffans and his new manager Alicia Etheredge. In April (07) Brown announced he was planning to sue his ex-wife in a bid to change his terms of custody with their teenage daughter. In court papers, the My Prerogative singer reveals he was too “strapped for cash” when his wife first filed for divorce last year (06) and couldn’t afford to hire a lawyer to help him fight for custody.

[From Contact Music]

I’m not sure how Whitney Houston could be in the same room as a guy who dated Superhead, but that’s just me, and I’m weird that way. And she did date Ray J, who’s about half her age and made that ridiculous sex tape with Kim Kardashian’s butt. I’m not sure if Kim was in it, they couldn’t fit both on the screen at the same time. Hopefully Brown and Houston’s meeting together means they can come to some amicable agreement regarding custody of their daughter, and they’re not getting back together. Drama surrounded those two like crack pipes in Whitney’s drug den.

Picture note by JayBird: Here’s Bobby Brown at BET’s 25th Anniversary Show in L.A. November 2005. Header image of Whitney looking like her old self at Clive Davis Pre-Grammy Awards Party in February. Images thanks to PR Photos.