Going to California

Abby got to take her first vacation at just about 5 months old.  We went out to CA so she could meet the rest of her family.  To say the least, she was a hit, but how could she not be.  The most common phrase was a version of "look at those blue eyes."  

We were meeting daddy in Sacramento, he got there about an hour before we did.  She did pretty well on the flight.  Ate at takeoff and fell asleep, I tried to move her and she woke up.  Was up for about another 30 minutes and started to fuss so I fed her again and she fell asleep.  I was not going to move her again.  That resulted me holding a bicep curl with a 12.5  pound weight for 2 hours.  She woke up about 40 minutes before landing and did well at landing.  She slept for 45 minutes of the hour and a half drive down to Modesto where we checked into our hotel and headed over to her Auntie C's house.  Her Auntie was so excited to meet her, and wasn't there when we showed up.  She got to meet her Uncle M, her cousin B, her Grandpa.  A little bit later her Auntie C and her Cousin Z showed up.  They all loved her.  

The next day we got to go to Grammie's house and meet a lot of her family including her Uncle K and her Auntie B.  There were so many people that came to meet her.  Of course they all loved her.  The time adjustment was a little hard on her.  She didn't want to nap and it was harder to get her to go down at night.  The first 2 nights she was also back to middle of the night feedings, which she hasn't done in a very long time.  That was hard on mommy.  We took Monday to just hang around the hotel where Peanut got to go swimming for the first time.  Her Cousins also came over.  

She turned 5 months while we were out in CA.  How is she that old already?

For the rest of the week we just hung out around the house taking it easy, isn't that what vacation is for?  It was great to visit with family again.  We haven't been out there in 2 years.  Auntie C also had to foreign exchange students from Japan staying there.  N and M, to say they loved Abby would be an understatement.  There was one day that we weren't there in the evening because we were off meeting some of our February mama's and babies.  They asked about her and were sad when they were told she wasn't there.  

The last day we drove back to Sacramento where we stayed the night at Uncle K's house.  THen it was time to go home the next day.  The flight back went well just like the flight there.  She is such a good plane baby.  It was very nice having her be so good.  I was so worried I was going to be THAT WOMAN with the screaming baby.  It was good to be home.  I was way more exhausted when we got home than before I left.  A vacation is definitely different when traveling with kids.  


-Mama Lucas