Right now we are in Louisiana. We decided to go last minute over the Memorial Day weekend. I was a bit nervous about Adelaide's first road trip, but so far she's done great. The normally 8 hour road trip took us 10 instead but she stayed on her regular schedule and slept 7 hours the night we arrived. I had been especially worried since the night before the trip she woke up every 3 hours, something totally out of the ordinary for her. I was so pleasantly surprised at how easy it was. It's been fun for her to get to see her grandparents and to meet Uncle Mike for the first time.
Since we've been here she's been to her first crawfish boil, ridden her first tractor, been introduced to livestock, and visited Judson Baptist and New Beginnings Churches. Thursday night we stayed at my mom's house. It was late when we got in so we went to sleep not long after we got there. Mike got to see her first though. The next day Rocky's mom came over and we went to lunch with his parents and Dan. Saturday we went to Wal-mart so my mom could show Adelaide off to all her work friends and then had a crawfish boil at Mike's that evening. I was interested to see how well Adelaide would handle the spice. I hated to just pump and dump without knowing whether or not she could handle it. She seemed to do fine with it though.
Sunday was definitely her most difficult day. She slept 10 hours the night before and was ready for her morning nap as we arrived at church, but no one cared about her nap schedule. Her toes were tugged, her blanket pulled off, her faced rubbed. Everyone kept begging us to wake her up to be held. We resisted but as soon as we went into the service they had a greeting time. A lady came up and pulled her car seat sunshade back and her eyes popped wide open. It took her pretty much the whole service to fall back asleep then right afterwards the whole thing started again. Everyone kept saying we needed to wake that baby up, even Rocky's mom, so finally we gave in. We paid for it the rest of the day. Her naps were all thrown off and she cried and cried at Michael's house that afternoon. People can be so disrespectful sometimes.
Today we're planning on having a memorial day cook out at North park near my mom's house. We've invited most of my extended family but I'm not sure any of them will show up. We'll see. Anyway, I'll post some pics and videos once we get home. Adelaide is definitely growing so fast. By looking at how well she can hold up her head and chest, she'll be crawling before we know it!
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Sounds like lots of fun. What a little trooper, and bummer about the people waking her up thing. It really is amazing how true the "never wake a sleeping baby" thing is! :o) Hope you have a safe drive back home.
Glad the trip went so well overall. We'll be traveling with Colt when he's 2 months (to Austin!), so it's good to see that it can be a positive experience. Take care!
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