5 days later we are finally home. Phew!!! 5 days away from home, away from creature comforts and all the stuff you know at arms length is not only tough to begin with, it is even tougher when you have an infant who is still trying to take all of it in. But we survived................barely!!!!
We drove out to Gammy and Poppas house on Thursday afternoon and had dinner and spent the night. we got a real early start on Friday morning after packing the motor home. When arrived in Folsom around 5pm ish. A quick unpack and clothing change and we were off to Larry and Ritas house for dinner. Here is where the trouble started......
Sophia has been having a hard time with gas bubbles and producing a loaded diaper. Lets just say the plumbing is backed up. She literally screamed her lungs out for 3 hours while we were over there trying to have dinner. Dan and Poppa went to Walgreeens to get some Gripe Water to help settle her stomach. And although it helped slightly, it wasnt until shje made one of those Luvs diaper commercial diapers where the babies compete for 1-10 scores for how big they can poop in their diapers did she finally settle down. She then proceeded to stay up till 1am and Gammy took the first shift rocking her and trying to get her to dose off. Daddy and I took the rest of the night. Up 2 or 3 more times and we finally finished night number one.
While there we got to see my sister in law and her kids. Gabriel was so excited to meet his cousin Sophia. He remembers from Christmas that I had a baby in my belly. He asked if the baby had finsihed eating in my belly and that was why she came out. So cute, so innocent. Better yet when he saw Sophia, he patted my belly and said it was beautiful and sooooo small. Gotta love kids...... they never lie! LOL We also got to go shopping at the outlet malls. Lots of fun.
Night number 2 was a repeat of night number 1. Gammy was up till 1am on that shift and then Daddy and I took her again. More crying, more fussiness, more burps, farts, explosive diapers and hiccups. This poor kid. She is a walking gastronomic disaster. She can burp and fart witht he best frat brothers it is ridiculous. She clears a room even. Poor baby, her stomach has got to be in knots.
Daddy and Poopa did worl in the yard, what we call the back 40. It is an acre and a half estate with tons of trees, bushes, flowers, rose garden, vegetable garden, compost heaps, tool shed, patio and veranda for sitting under in the mid day sun. Just beautiful. I call it my happy place. It truly is the garden of eden.
Night number 3 was better. Sophia slept inb cycles and gave us little trouble. When she did finally wake up and was fussy I went our into the living room and let her sleep on my chest in the lazy boy recliner. It was actually kind of cute.
Monday was a quick pack and back in the motor home. Oh no!!!!! Severe weather alert. Snow in the Grapevine. We are trapped. Can't get home. Time to take the scenic route through Pao Robles, down to the 101 and around to Santa Clarita. It added 4 more hours to an already 7 hour trip but we had the motor home and it made it more comfortable. So off we went on our final adventure home. We stopped in Buelton at Pea Soup Anderson's for dinner and then it started. Crazy angry Sophia came out and she screamed the entire meal. We all took turns taking her out side and upstairs away from the rest of the patrons so she didnt disrupt theor dinner. A quick toss of the food into to go boxes and we were out of there. The rest of dinner will have to be by over head light in a styrofoam box via motor home. No big deal we can survive. 3 hours to go to get home. And more crying and screaming. She fussed and screamed on and off the remaindser of the time. We got back to Santa Clarita around 10pm. Straight to bed we all went, even Sophia. She had cried herself out. Up 2 times in the middle of the night with mommy for diapers and feeding and our last night wasnt so bad.
Up early to unload the motor home and clean up. It was a good day. Going home tonight after dinner. Looking forward to my own bed and some staying at home time.
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