We had a crazy long weekend! Thursday night I packed up Fiona and Zoe and we went and stayed at my sisters house for the whole weekend in Tacoma (I went to work on Friday while T watched Fi). We had a great time and man are we exhausted!
The first night that we got there I was all set to have Fiona sleep alone in the bedroom in her pack-n-play and zoe and i would sleep on the couch. This way we can stay up late and get up early and Fiona can get her sleep. But it seems that we’ve finally reached the age of being afraid. She was so sad and crying and crying. She finally fell asleep for a bit and I just finished telling my sister that there’s no way Fiona can sleep in bed with me because all she wants to do is play when she woke up crying again. So zoe (her faithful babysitter) and I went in there and we cuddled on the bed – she looked up at me with the sweetest face you’ve ever seen and said “momma <patted the bed> night night” That was that. I cleared the bed and we layed down and she cuddled right into me and fell sound asleep.
IT WAS THE GREATEST THING EVER. Oh man! I missed that! I am for the most part happy to have the bed back to just me and greg – no squirmy little body kicking me and flipping around all night – but i miss her warm little bod snuggled up against me and the sound of her breath as she drifts off to sleep. It was such a treat. Plus now I know that she gets it – that she gets that we can sleep in the bed together – which will make things like travel a lot easier!
Saturday morning we got up and went to Point Deffiance Zoo. This was Fiona’s first trip to the zoo – she finally stays awake long enough that it’s worth the ticket! =) She loved it – but her favorite thing was pointing out all the “doo-doo” and any time she caught an animal peeing. Oh man then she laughed and pointed and squealed “DOOO-DOOOO!!!!”. Needless to say she was extremely impressed by the elephants – my sister is convinced she’s going to grow up to be a “scat expert” – who apparently make really good money.
Point Deffiance is a great place for little kids – it’s small enough that you can get through the whole thing in a few hours and there’s a wonderful kids section that had the coolest toys and slides, goats to pet and feed, and small animals down at little kids level. We had a really nice day.
Sunday we celebrated Birthday (mine and my sisters – they’re on the same day). And by Sunday night we were all absolutely exhausted!
Greg comes home tomorrow night from Germany and we start Fiona’s first swim lesson! I can’t wait!
Look at all her hair. It’s amazing how fast it grows now.
Happy late birthday… glad you had a good one!
I love sleeping w/ my kids… every now and then.