Tales from our roadtrip, day one {image heavy}

I wanted to title this "The one in which G foils my plan and screams for 2 hours, then falls asleep 10 miles from our destination" but it seemed pretty long. You now have a summary of day one of our road trip vacation to Lake Tahoe.

happy during the first hour

We had wanted to go to Lake Tahoe since we moved to the area. It's a super beautiful place, only 3 hours from where we live...how could we not go? I finally got my husband to okay spending some cash to go on a mini-vacation, booked our hotels, planned a few 'excursions,' and waited until the end of August.

Rose & Thorns for last week

Monday rose: Grammy and Aunt arrived for their visits!
Monday thorn: Daddy went back to work after being off for vacation...bummer!! We missed him.
Tuesday rose: G got a baby piano (literally a baby one, not the expensive kind) and enjoyed banging on it. It was really cute to watch her. I'm sure she'll enjoy it even more into toddler-hood
Tuesday thorn: As I was nursing G to sleep, she decided to gum-bite me. Not fun at all. I yelped in pain.
Wednesday rose: G sat like a big girl in her high chair for the first time with us at dinner!
Wednesday thorn: We took my car to get something fixed on it, but it turned into a big debacle and we all got hot, sweaty, and kind of frustrated.
Thursday rose: G ate rice cereal for the first time, and did great! It was really fun watching her try to grab the spoon and feed herself. I would have let her, but she kind of choked on it.
Thursday thorn: For the 4th night in  row, G woke up THREE times screaming. Not fun for any one.
Friday rose: After Grammy left, we took a nap together and it was very peaceful.
Friday thorn: Grammy left.
Saturday rose: G never needed us at night, although she did wake up twice.
Saturday thorn: I had to go to the doctor and get medicine for my ear infection. The pharmacy closed before I could go pick-up my Rx. (It had been dropped off, so there was no going to another pharmacy or anything)
Sunday rose: G went swimming for the first time.
Sunday second rose: G did a really great army crawl for the camera. She's getting pretty mobile.
no thorn for Sunday...it was so lovely!

Wednesday's rose/thorn

Wednesday's rose: G and I had to run to target to pick up some Huggies Pure & Natural because we're not CD'ing on our trip to the Ohio River. So despite my attempts to get us in the shortest check out line, we found ourselves in the slowest moving one. Apparently it was her first day. Needless to say, we were stationary in line for quite some time. I amused G by tickling and kissing her. It wad so precious. She kept giggling & smiling back at me, as if to say, "I love you momma! Keep playing with me, it's so fun!" I just melt with each little giggle.
Wednesday's thorn: late bed time. To get to our current destination we have an 8 hour journey broken up by stopping at my in-law's home for the evening. Regardless of stopping, bed time was going to be late. Instead of the 6:15 pm bedtime she needed due to her last nap ending early, G got a 9:30 pm bedtime by the time all was said and done. You naysayers of 'sleep training' may assume she slept later, but you should know better from previous posts. She was up at 6:15 am. Tragic.

Tuesday's rt

Tuesdays rose: G took a double nap!!!! Woohoo!! Her mid day nap is typically 45 minutes long, but on Tuesday she woke briefly at 45 minutes & returned to sleep for another 40 minutes. As a mother slightly obsessed with her baby's sleep...this was so exciting!!
Secondary rose: G gave me what I consider to be a hug! Her arms were wrapped around my shoulders & she leaned in!
Tuesday's thorn: major (what I think) teething pain for the baby girl. She was really irritable most of the day and went to bed early.

Monday's Rose/Thorn

Monday's Rose: Our friends came for a play date & the girls wore matching dresses and we took their pictures! I love having friends that have so much in common with us :-)

Monday's Thorn: G hit her head yet again rolling in her crib during nap time. I don't know what to do. I don't want to use bumpers for fear of suffocation, but I don't want her to keep getting 'hurt'. She also cried pretty hard at bed time...what's up with that??

Sunday's RT

Sunday's Rose: G was so WELL behaved at the BBQ we went to, despite it being a pretty loud setting. She nursed very well, not distracted at all. She played well & smiled at everyone. She seemed to enjoy all of the different sounds/voices.

Sunday's Thorn: we were pretty late for church and it was NOT G's fault!

Saturday's RT

Saturday's rose: this was a great day, but the best part was snuggling in bed with G & her daddy. We were lazy until about 9 am and we all loved being together. The husband made waffles & I ran to get us Panera drinks (thanks discover points for the gift card). When G took her first nap, we did too!
Saturday's thorn: We went out on a date & left after we "thought" G was asleep. Our cousins watched her and apparently she woke up 5 minutes after we left. It took them 1.5 hours to get her back asleep. While our date was lovely, this was still a thorn because I feel bad she was missing us and they had a tough time with her. They loved watching her though! :-)

Friday's RT

Friday's Rose: G had a super fun playtime with Daddy. I was there, too, but I just love watching them together. We also read a little critter's book together as a family. Such fun :)
Friday's Thorn: G hit her head on her crib slats, rolling instead of napping. :(
Additionally she fought all naps again. She ended up falling asleep nursing at 5 pm & I just held her while she slept 25 minutes. While it's a bad habit, it was sweet & peaceful for both of us.

Thursday's RT

Yesterday's rose: G let me snuggle her a little bit instead of squealing to get down and play :) I thought to myself, how lovely it would be if we could just snuggle here all day...and then she wanted down to squirm and practice her crawling skills. I bet she'll be crawling before 6 months.
Yesterday's thorn: she.fought.all.three.naps! Finally I let her fuss/cry it out until she fell asleep on her belly. That's starting to become a new trend.

Rose/thorn

I've been thinking of a way to write more often about meaningful things to G and me. So I am planning to start a rose/thorn daily post. I'll start with yesterday.
Rose: A friend came over for dinner and G was very happy. My husband also enjoyed seeing his friend! G had previously been pretty grumpy with he came over but yesterday they got along great!


Thorn: We had to run to Aldi to get some supplies for dinner...but they didn't have heavy whipping cream!?!?? So we had to run to another store, meaning more time in the heat and pushing back G's nap so she got over tired & the day got all off schedule.