On the road again...

We are almost home! It's day 2 of driving home from Tucson, and we just can't wait to get there. We have about 3 hours left, so we've reached the 'end is in sight' stage. Adelyn will be thrilled to get out of her car seat, let me tell you. Before we left, my Grandma gave her a helium-filled balloon with a frog on it, and the frog had these funny little eyes that popped off of both sides. Of course, Addy ripped off all 4 eyes before we left, but she's had a great time chewing on the string, the balloon, the clip that keeps it from floating away... I swear, by the way she is tearing at it, I'd say her agenda is to pop the sucker. More later.

Trip to Tucson (pics)

A few photos of our trip so far:

Nom nom. Day 2 of driving. Have to keep the baby entertained somehow, right??

Superbaby with Daddy in New Mexico!

Kisses from Daddy at a rest stop in New Mexico.

Daddy and baby!

Momma and baby at a rest stop in New Mexico. Only 3 more hrs until Tucson!

Addy riding in the backpack at the gem show .

Happy baby riding behind Daddy!

Daddy, Adelyn and a giant ball of quartz. It was ginormous. And there were even bigger ones too!

Grandpa Joe explaining to Addy how this neat old machine was making ice cream! We sampled some, and it was delicious.

Home from Day 1 at the gem show. Time to relax on the back patio!

When I look at Grandpa Joe, I get shy :)

Sweet angel

Grandma Lo, Great-Grandma Archer and Grandpa Joe on the back porch. Yes, my Mom is gardening :)

Daddy loves his daughter

Messy baby! Done eating squash. Or sweet potato. Or something orange...

Oh yes, Momma, I'm a messy baby.

Time to get clean!

Baby loves bath time.

Oh, she is most definitely teething!

And I have proof!!!!

Today, Adelyn was chewing on my finger when all of a sudden I felt something sharp and hard on her gums. At first I thought maybe something was on my finger, but then I thought "Waaiiit a minute...", so I put a different finger in her mouth and sure enough I felt that hard little nub again. I was eventually able to look at her gums (that took a little while, this girl likes to stick out her tongue and cover those little gums) and there it was! A dark little line with a white tooth trying to poke through! I'm a sap, I shed a little tear. Because this means our baby is growing up! The tooth is just starting to cut through, but I'm guessing that by the end of the week she may have a little white pearl sitting on those lovely pink gums. I wonder if I'll be able to get a picture of it...

The Gem Show has been great so far, there is so much to see- fossils, minerals, meteorites, gemstones... I'll write a longer post with pics tomorrow. It's supposed to be rainy, so that will be a good activity for me to try to accomplish. Ha!

We've arrived

Got to Tucson around 4:30pm.  Adelyn did even better today than she did yesterday, so we were very fortunate.  Short entry, since we are worn out. The basic game plan for this week is to hit up the Tucson Gem and Mineral Show (fossils! gemstones! jewelry! woohooo!) go hiking in Sabino canyon, head to the Univ. of Arizona campus (did I mention I went there for the first 1.5 yrs  of my ungraduate career?), and maybe even have a date night! We have 3 able-bodied babysitters here, so we may have to take advantage of that! Ok, more later (including pics).

Halfway to Tucson

After a day of driving, we are in Pecos, TX.  That's right folks, we are driving to Tucson, AZ to visit my Grandma (and my parents too, they drove out today) for a week.  We drove about 8.5 hrs today, and we will finish the other... 8ish tomorrow.  Addy did surprisingly well, napped at the beginning, woke up at 11:30, and stayed up for the rest of the trip.  You read that right. We got to the hotel around 6:30 or so, checked in, unpacked, etc. It was about 7:45pm by the time we got to put her down.  She cried for about 10 mins and then she was out.  But ahh yes, the sleeping arrangements. Since we are not yet rich enough to get a suite, or two rooms, we have to set up the pack 'n play by the window of our room.  It's a pretty nice little room, but that's all it is - a single room.  Which means that since Addy went to bed early, we have to tip toe around the room to get ready for bed, brush our teeth... Oh ya, and dinner? We ate our dinner on a couch out in a common area on our floor, just 3 doors down from our room. What did we hear as we were finishing our meal? Our little pumpkin, waking up and hollering for Momma and Daddy, because this just isn't her crib or her bedroom.  It's been a long, taxing day of driving, listening to a happy, then not-so-happy baby. If you'll excuse us, I think we will retire ealy before doing it all again tomorrow. See you in Tucson!

We think she's teething. That could explain the crankiness.

I took Adelyn shopping to see if a change in venue would put her in a better mood. It didn't. Although at one point, Addy saw another baby about her age being pushed around in a stroller and her face broke into this big ol' grin. She even went "ohh", like she wanted to talk to the baby. It was so precious! She needs to meet some babies her age :)

A little crawling news: I put her in the crawling position yesterday to see what she would do. She held it for about 5 seconds (really!) before collapsing onto her tummy and complaining that "Momma is just soooooo mean! I'll crawl when I'm good and ready." Okay, I get the hint.

Sound the alarm.

Someone woke up on the wrong side of the crib this morning...

It seems that we have the crankiest baby in the world. Addy doesn't want to play, she doesn't want to sit, she doesn't want to eat. She just wants to be carried around. So for the sake of my sanity, I strapped her into the snugli and carried her around for 45 minutes before she fell asleep. Hopefully she'll wake up in a better mood than before, because 1 cranky baby=1 cranky momma. We learned that in math class.