Road Trip!

For Thanksgiving we will be driving up to my grandmother's house in Missouri.  That's a 10 hour drive   with a 3 month old.  I know...we're a bit scared too.  SO, in order to help ease the sting a bit, we drove down to Travis's parents house in Houston Halloween weekend.  We decided to leave around the time she would be going to bed.   So we put her in her pjs, gave her her last feed, loaded everything up, and headed down to Houston.  And let me just say, for the record, we knew packing with a baby would be a little more intense, but good gracious the amount of stuff adds up quick!  The car was packed top to bottom.  Everything worked out exactly as planned, and she slept the entire way!  She did so good!!

I'm learning it never fails when we're starting to make some major strides in some area we have to go on a trip and mess up her schedule.  This trip was my first lesson.  She just started sleeping 8-10 hour stretches the week leading up to us leaving.  In fact, the night before she slept 10 glorious hours!  My naive mommy brain was hoping she would maintain her new found sleep patterns, but reality quickly set in.  The weekend was a bit much for sweet Annabelle.  Like I've mentioned before she's not one for crowds.  She gets overwhelmed pretty easily.  Needless to say, she was super overwhelmed the whole weekend.  That equaled to a lot of retreating upstairs for some one-on-one baby alone time.  She's just a bit of an introvert.

Coming home and recovering was a bit of a beating, but we gotta start somewhere.  Just super thankful she doesn't mind her carseat, and actually loves being in the car!  I know some of my mommy friends who's little ones can't stand the carseat.  How hard that would be!  Here are some pics from the weekend.

Happy Halloween!

So so sleepy...

Nap time with daddy.

 Grandpa and sweet Annabelle

 Grandma and Annabelle.  And what typically happened 5 minutes in to holding her. 

 Uncle Shawn 

Great Grandma