Vacation!

Two years ago I never would've dared to think about planning a vacation with Molly. I guess part of me didn't think it was ever going to happen because never did I think she would be well enough or I would trust that we would be able to take care of her that far away from a hospital. Who am I kidding? From Children's. Even a year ago we still weren't in a place to make any long term plans or think about a vacation. But now she is a whole different kid and I say kid because she's not a baby anymore. She is growing up and I love it! Part of me is sad that I missed out on a lot of her being a baby but I'm thrilled that she is with us, doing fantastic and being a little girl.

Our friend's family was generous enough to allow us to stay at their condo for 3 days. We left here Tuesday morning and headed up to NH. The condo was right down the street from Weirs Beach. We didn't do a whole lot the first day. Just unloaded the car and got settled in. Jay's family also has a house not to far from there so he was familiar with the area. We had plans to go to Santa's Village the next day so we tried to get to bed fairly early because it was a two hour ride from where we were staying. Well, that night was a nightmare. We weren't even sure we were going to get to Santa's Village the following day. We put Molly to bed and just as I was getting ready to go to bed she woke up. She was crying and wouldn't calm down. SO I took out the ipad, put on her favorite movie and she calmed right down. Except that backfired because all she wanted to do was watch the ipad and wouldn't go to sleep. I tried to put her in the pack n play with the ipad but then she would hit something and the thing would shut off so I'd have to put it back on. So frustrating. This went on until 2am. I was finally able to go to sleep and she woke up at 5:45 for the day. I couldn't believe it. I wanted to throw up I was so tired. We heard it was going to rain on Thursday so we made the decision to suck it up, get dressed and head up to Santa's Village. Molly was in a great mood and we figured she would nap on the way up. We were in the car for about 3 minutes and she was out! We had to wake her when we got there. Our first stop was the carousel. I figured she would like it because she's been on the rides at the mall and loved it well, I was wrong...very very wrong. She started out with one hand on the reindeer and one hand holding on to my shirt. then she decided that she was going to put both hands on my shirt, clenching for dear life, and faced backwards for the entire ride. I had to sing "The Wheels On The Bus" for the entire ride so she wouldn't burst into tears. All the while I'm thinking to myself "please hurry up and stop the ride". After that was over we fed her lunch and just walked around the park to see if maybe there was something else she could try now that she was more awake, full belly and ready to go. I guess the thing we didn't think about was the signs that say "nobody with a heart problem can ride this ride". I thought about when she's older but not at 2. She still had a great time watching all of the kids, being outside and taking in the new surroundings. We will definitely take her back when she's a little older and can walk (she's VERY heavy). I'm so happy that we went and were able to make these memories. We wanted to make absolute sure she was tired for the night so we took her for a walk down the beach. We went into all of the little shops, went to the arcade. I tried to take a picture with her in the photo booth but she was more interested in looking at herself in the mirror on the side of the booth so that was a flop. We put her down for the night and she went right to sleep and slept all night...WOO HOO!!

We didn't have a whole lot planned for Thursday because it was supposed to rain so Jay's cousin gave us a bunch of tokens for an arcade that we had planned to go to while we were there so that's what we did. We tried to put Molly on a few of the coin-operated rides and she was not having it. We found one that she would tolerate so I guess it wouldn't matter if we did find a ride for her to go on at Santa's Village because she probably would've had a meltdown anyway. Once we were done we headed back, fed her lunch, put her down for a nap and once she woke up headed out to do some more shopping. We started packing everything up so we could head out early this morning.

We were home by 10am, unpacked by 11 and Molly was down for a nap by 11:30. Since we both felt like we were going to fall on our face if we didn't do something we went out. We ended up going out to dinner at a Mexican restaurant up the street. Molly ended up eating a cheese quesadilla and some of whatever it was that Jay had. There are very few things that she won't at least try. Some things she'll take multiple bites of and other things she'll eat one bite and won't take another but at least she tries it. I'm so excited to get back to Growth & Nutrition so they can see all that she does now!

We had a great vacation. We didn't do a whole lot but we were away with just the three of us. Playing on the floor, laughing at Molly because she's that hilarious, making memories that I will cherish forever. It was the perfect vacation and I wouldn't have done anything different!