Our Weekend Away

My mom came to visit Saturday morning, which was great. I was missing her and she got to see Rory again. She also brought a baby picture of me to prove how much Rory looks like I did as a baby. She brought Rory a child-sized toy baby grand piano. I cooked breakfast, cleaned up and packed, and we headed to the Valley for Mike's family reunion. It was nice to meet his relatives and see his family again. After the fabulous eating day Rory had on Friday, we were very eager to go away and enjoy ourselves while Rory ate everything we fed her and all would be well in the world....until she decided not to eat any breakfast. Not even a bite. She had her usual cheerios and cheese for snack, and had some mushroom soup for lunch. She actually ate quite well at the reunion, sitting in her stroller. We just fed her stuff off our plates, ham, cheese, bun, she licked some dip off of some broccolli, and had three big spoonfuls of fruit dip. Satisfied she had eaten, we relaxed and watched her playing with the other children, squealing and being chased and doing the chasing, and running and falling and really, she had the time of her life.

Figuring she must be tired, having only napped for 45 min that day in the car, we head home and attempt to put her to bed, which, as she always does when we're away, she refused to do. So we let her stay up, penned in her playpen (we were so tired from chasing her all day). The child just would not fall asleep. So at 10pm, I take her upstairs and go to bed too, with her in the playpen beside me. She eventually falls asleep for about an hour, and wakes up SCREAMING....I tried to settle her and she would, but only momentarily and then it was screaming on and off all night. Mike decided to sleep downstairs to I took her in bed with me....but she would fall asleep and still wake up screaming. She wouldn't eat, so I determined she was in pain, ambesol did nothing....A tummy ache from the mish mash of food she had eaten.......the night is a blur, but I'm pretty sure she slept a couple hours in the early morning. When the sun came up and I had my coffee I realized it.......NO PREVACID!!! With all the excitement and change of routine, I had forgotten to give it to her before bed. It was all my fault. :(

So, on very little sleep, and Rory refusing breakfast we decided we'd try again to relax, and headed off to the beach with Christine, Terry & Jack. I swam for the first time in 2 years....it was so nice. Rory was shivering before we even made it to the water, so I decided not to take her in. Christine took her in while Mike & I ate some lunch, and she enjoyed herself, though, she was pretty cold. Rory decided she wanted to eat our onion rings, though she could only lick them. She didn't want baby food. When we got back to Mike's parents, she had 3 bites of tomato soup, another first for her, and for supper she ate some baked potato. It took 2 hours to get her to go to sleep when we got home. It took TEN oz of formula to get her to settle.

Could she be fighting bedtime because she is hungry? I usually don't give her more than 8 oz for fear she'll puke, but she took 10 oz last night and was asleep before I laid her in the crib. Mind you, it was 10 oz over 2 hours. It makes sense she'd be hungry, she mostly only gets formula. I'd feel terrible if I was letting her cry at bedtime, going in and out and in and out, all because she wants more formula....I sure hope that's not what it is. I thought it was a phase. :(