Jut's grandmother turns 80 tomorrow. To celebrate this monumental b-day, his mom and aunt threw her a surprise b-day party on Saturday. We decided that since we hadn't seen her for a year that we would go down on Friday with the cover story that we were on our way down to Indianapolis for a baby shower on Sunday and were just dropping in to see her. We had a great time catching up with Grandma Mi-Mi and Aunt Gaye over dinner on Friday evening.
We headed to a local hotel to spend the night. Well, true to form, E doesn't sleep well in hotels. It took forever for her to get to sleep (11 pm) and then she was awake crying by 3 again. By 6:30, she thought it was time to start the day. Needless to say, it was a short night!
But, my girl loves a good party! She did wonderful throughout the entire b-day party. It was fun meeting some of Jut's family for the first time and seeing others that we hadn't seen since our wedding 6 years ago. A good time was had by all.
Around 6, my sister showed up because we were carpooling down to Indianapolis together for our cousin's baby shower. So, we climbed in the car about 7 and hit the road. Stacey entertained E for quite a while. E didn't fall asleep until it got dark about around 9. So, we arrived in Indy around 10:30 and decided to get a suite at a hotel. We would take the bedroom and Stacey would sleep on the couch.
Unfortunately our definition of 'suite' and the hotel's definition of 'suite' were not the same. We were thinking that we'd get a 2 room living/bedroom...well...we walked into a slightly larger than normal hotel room with a king size bed and jacuzzi. Myself, Jut, Stacey and Elizabeth one room. It was a touch weird and uncomfortable, and between the roll-away and the pack-n-play there was hardly any room left. But, we decided to make the best of it. We were cozily making memories, I guess. Well, anyway, we probably would have been able to keep E asleep had we had a separate b'room, but as soon as she saw Aunt Stacey, she knew that it must be time to play and NOT sleep. She was awake and ready to go.
Actually, we had a pretty good time. We joked about heading to an all night restaurant, but I didn't want to be one of 'those' parents that have their kids out past midnight in their pjs. So, we watched E run around the room...fed her another dinner of mac 'n' cheese at 11, gave her bath and somehow got her back to sleep sometime between 12 and 1, which is not an easy feat with 3 adults in the room. She just wanted to be the clown.
Again, it was another short night, but many times better than the previous night. But true to form, our girl loves a party. She had a lot of fun at Aunt Evie's running up and down the stairs. She was mesmerized by the other babies there. At one point in time, she was reverently stroking a 7-week old's feet. She was quite amazed by Conner and the lo. She loved helping Kendel open presents...I think Christmas will be much more fun this year...It was a great baby shower and fun to celebrate Nicholas' impending arrival with Kendel.
We drove back to Jut's aunt's. Dropped off Stacey and Grandma Mi-Mi gave E a b-day balloon. The balloon keep E awake until we hit Gratiot county, which was perfect because we were able to get her into the house still sleeping so that we could also go to sleep.
It was a fun weekend road trip! I'm glad we had the adventure!!
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