Weekend road trip

What a crazy couple of days...



Let me give everyone a little of a backdrop to this story. E is teething. Her molars. Can you say "Ouch". The poor little peanut has been doped up on Tylenol and Oragel for a week. She hasn't been sleeping at night...so needless to say, neither are we. 2-3 hour stints of wakeful unhappiness each night were common place during the week.



So, of course, why wouldn't we pack up for a trip to Indianapolis for the weekend? Everyone loves to have a crabby baby next to them in the hotel, right?! Thursday night was another one of the those long nights. We had planned on leaving at 10Am...well, we didn't even roll out of bed until 9 due to our 3 hour stint of unhappy wakefulness from 2:45 to 6. So, it was a late start. We eventually rolled out of town around 1.


E was tired! It was way past time for a nap. But, the car seat now faces foward...oh, the fun and joy of looking foward. So, one cannot sleep...there is too much to see. We made it to Lapeer before she fell asleep. Once again, it wasn't really happy wakefulness during this time...I was questioning our decision to leave until E slept until just before the MI border. The remainder of the trip was much better than we had anticipated.

Once we arrived at the hotel, it was time to explore. E checked out every nook and cranny in our hotel room. She then proceeded to check out the rest of the hotel. Like all toddlers, she has a natural draw to the stairs, which she must have climbed at least 10 times. At 9, I finally called her exploring quits and made her go to bed. Hopefully our neighbors were not in their room as bed time insued. Jut could hear her screaming from the lobby at one point in time. But, eventually tired one out and she slept peacefully...for awhile.

About 2:45 AM, the little peanut woke up very unhappy. We gave her the teething medications, but to no avail...she was not going to be quiet unless her mom stood up and held her. Our poor neighbors! I walked the floor with her for about 1.5 hours and Jut took her down to the lobby for an hour or so after that...we again were awake until about 6. Crazy baby!

When she woke back up at 9:20, she was very happy to find her Grandma and Grandpa waiting for her in the lobby.

So with much trepidition, we were off to a wedding with a baby with not much sleep and 2 parents that didn't get quite as much sleep as her.

But, as E proved with Aunt Stacey's wedding in December, she loves a good wedding and she's up for the challenge. E was as good as gold. She let everyone hold her. She loved having a shadow follow her everywhere watching her go up and down and up and down all the wonderful staircases at Aunt Evie's house. Grandpa kept close tabs on her and made sure that she did not get into too much trouble.

She got fed more treats than she had ever been fed. She got to eat two of her new favorite foods...chocolate chip cookies and blueberries. The blueberries were divine!! However, I was glad that she was in disposable diapers because when those blueberries came out the other end...YIKES! The chocolate chip cookies were wonderful too. She made more of a mess with them than she dreamed of making with her 1 year b-day cake.

She was a trooper, but at 6 (mind you, no naps today), Jut and I decided that we had pushed our good luck long enough, and we headed for the road. We didn't think that she could keep rolling for much longer. Sure enough, within 5 minutes of being strapped into her carseat, she was out!

E slept for the entire trip home...5.5 hours. However at 11:30, guess who woke up, wide awake ready to play. So, we fed her dinner (at midnight, do you call it dinner?) and played until 2. Crazy girl. She was awake at 7:30, again.

We were tired!!! and still are, I think...what a fun, crazy weekend!