So I have been dreading flying with Samantha for as long as I booked this flight to Alaska. Of course this is not b/c I don't love that girl to death but she is a crazy woman...she likes to move and move and move. She is nothing like my Hannah who will happily sit and remain calm...Samantha does not poses this gift. I imagined the worst but there is now way I could of ever imagined how bad it actually went...so here is my story:
We left from SFO last night at 7:45pm. When we got to SFO and checked my bags it was 14lbs overweight so they were going to charge me $50 extra dollars. They then told me it would only be $50 extra to upgrade to first class b/c of my bag overage and there were a lot of spots open so that it was a good probability that there would be an open spot next to me to put Samantha in. So Adam convinced me that it was a good idea this way I could enjoy my 4 1/2 hour flight up in a comfortable 1st class seat. I have never flown first class so I decided I would try it.
As soon as I got through security Samantha started being a wild woman. Trying to crawl out of her stroller including using a garbage can as leverage to pull herself out of her stroller. Finally the flight was ready to board and I got in my fancy first class line and off we went. I even asked at the gate if the seat next to me was open and they said it was. So I dragged that massive car seat onto the plane and started to take it out of its carrying bag when I heard a man say I believe that is my seat....damn!! So back I put the car seat in its bag and another nice man helped me bring it back to the flight attendant to gate check it. I settle into my seat with the horror of knowing I would be holding onto Samantha for 4 1/2 hours but I figured it is already her bed time she should be asleep soon...I was so wrong.
From the moment we sat down it was like I gave Samantha some mega dose of sugar or perhaps even crack! She was jumping up and down on me, leaning this way and that, rolling all over the place trying to escape into the aisle over my leg that was blocking her. She did momentarily sit down on my lap to read a few books but that lasted all of about 15 minutes. One of her best moments of craziness was when she was hanging upside down on my lap and grabbing the magazines in the seat in front of us while upside down and throwing the magazines into the aisle. I really didn't know what to do but laugh...I was so beyond exhausted at this point b/c she continued on like this for 3 hours!! Don't think I didn't try to get her to sit and not move around and encouraged her to lay down but several times she would scream out in protest or start crying and that was just torturous to have people look at me when she did that...none of this would fly at home, so I don't know why she thought it was o.k. here. Luckily the man next to us was incredibly nice and VERY tolerant of my crazy daughter. He was evening trying to play with her and laughed when she threw her plastic cell phone at him...I was not laughing. Oh and I forgot to mention that she of course pooped about 2 hours into the flight and so I had to change her in those mini bathrooms where luckily they had a mini changing table that folded down on top of the toilet but it positioned Samantha right under the kleenex box so of course she spent that time wisely and pulled MANY kleenexes out. She for some reason had diarreha and some leaked out so I had to do a complete wardrobe change in that small bathroom and Samantha decided it was a good idea to "help" me and take some of those kleenexes she was pulling out to try and help me wipe the poop up...I of course freaked out.
Finally, at 11pm our time she decided she was tired enough to crash, which she did on my chest. Now the other "drama" that was going on in first class was diagonally from me where a lady was having an asthma attack and they had her on oxygen but it was not helping b/c the oxygen could not get in since her lungs were constricting. The flight attendants paged for a doctor, nurse or EMT over the load speaker several times before a nurse finally came up to help from coach. Prior to this her husband had been on some special head set to the medics somewhere on the ground and I was praying we wouldn't be landing some other place in an emergency landing. Well since Samantha was asleep I now devoted my full attention to this interesting medical emergency and my seat mate and I gossiped about it and about how much these 2 had been drinking. All of a sudden my legs started to shake uncontrolably and I started feeling really sick. My right eye started twitching and my world started to fade in and out. I was so scared I had no idea what was going on. I looked at my seat mate and told him I don't feel well at all and with a look of horror on his face the last thing I remember him saying was "WE NEED HELP OVER HERE!!" The next thing I remember I am awake and Samantha is on his lap and crying. He tells me I just passed out and was ghost white and he grabbed Samantha just to be safe. The flight attendants had oxygen on me and were asking me if I had a medical condition. Well of course I don't and now the nurse that was helping the lady with the asthma attack was helping me! I was so embarassed! Since they were trying to work on me and Samantha kept crying a really nice lady a few rows ahead of us with a 10 year old boy came and grabbed Samantha and started to walk up and down the plane while holding her. They finally figured out that I was probably dehydrated and exhausted (they had been watching my fun 3 hour ordeal prior with Samantha) and that is why I passed out. They gave me water and kept me on oxygen. I begged them to go back to helping they lady with the more serious asthma attack and not the dumbass who forgot to drink enough that day. I realized now looking back that I had been busy that day and had not drank much and then I know I didn't drink much before or during the flight for fear of how I was going to go to the bathroom with Samantha sleeping on me (if only that were the case). The nice lady brought Samantha back to me after I recovered and then of course Samantha was awake again b/c why should she go to sleep. So on that whole 4 1/2 hour flight she only slept 20 minutes. When we landed and the paramedics came for asthma lady they flight attendents asked me if I wanted to be checked out too but I declined it b/c I did feel better and I just wanted to get the hell off that flight.
When we got to my brother's house Samantha again was a crazy woman and decided that it was not time to sleep so she did not get to sleep until 1 am Alaska time, 2 am our time. Then she woke up at 5:30 am and wanted to get up....crazy! I managed to get her back to sleep until 8am but not before waking up once more to cry a lot a protest about the fact that I wanted her to sleep.
So you can see why I dreaded this flight so much, but I could have never imagined it would go this bad. All the people in 1st class were enjoying free alcohol, free digi players to watch movies, a nice chicken salad and I got none of that but a crazy child and passing out.
We are having fun now though and I hope to post pictures tomorrow.
Saturday, July 10, 2010
Thursday, May 20, 2010
Not liking the Toddler Room
Samantha's transition to the Toddler Room is not going so well. Sometimes she has great days, but a lot of days she cries A LOT. Yesterday she cried all morning and kept pointing to the Infant Room. So at about 11am they let her go over there and she was much happier. About 12:50pm she went to take a nap and when I came to pick her up at 3:30pm she was still out cold. This is what I saw:
Poor thing! She slept like this until 4pm...crazy 3 hour nap! Hopefully today goes better.
Here is a new skill of Samantha's that she likes to do:
When Adam was in Palm Springs my mom came up to help me with the girls. One night we took her out to dinner to celebrate her birthday and I thought it would be a perfect opportunity to take a picture of the 3 generations of women...Samantha had other plans and did not want to take a picture at all! Didn't this just turn out lovely..and this is the best one...so sad.
This last weekend we went down to Vacaville and stopped at the new Nut Tree play area. Hannah and Samantha had a lot of fun:
Here is Samantha bench pressing the giant chess pieces (I wish Adam and I could have played):
Samantha and Hannah on a ride together...of course they can NEVER both be looking at the camera and smiling nice at the same time...why would they want to do that?
Here is Samantha and Hannah on the Spiderman ride...Samantha was really curious about Spiderman...
Poor thing! She slept like this until 4pm...crazy 3 hour nap! Hopefully today goes better.
Here is a new skill of Samantha's that she likes to do:
When Adam was in Palm Springs my mom came up to help me with the girls. One night we took her out to dinner to celebrate her birthday and I thought it would be a perfect opportunity to take a picture of the 3 generations of women...Samantha had other plans and did not want to take a picture at all! Didn't this just turn out lovely..and this is the best one...so sad.
This last weekend we went down to Vacaville and stopped at the new Nut Tree play area. Hannah and Samantha had a lot of fun:
Here is Samantha bench pressing the giant chess pieces (I wish Adam and I could have played):
Samantha and Hannah on a ride together...of course they can NEVER both be looking at the camera and smiling nice at the same time...why would they want to do that?
Here is Samantha and Hannah on the Spiderman ride...Samantha was really curious about Spiderman...
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Happy 35th Birthday to Adam!
Wow! I cannot believe Adam is 35 today...what's worse is this means that I will soon be 35 too...craziness! We are almost 40! Anyway, poor guy is not here on his birthday, but rather in Palm Springs on business and not happy to be working. He was really upset about this, but the girls and I packed him a little present to open today and we will celebrate with him when he gets back. Hannah was a lovely little peach this morning and refused to wish him a happy birthday b/c she was "starving" and couldn't take a 5 second break to wish her father a happy birthday...lovely.
While Adam is gone my mom is staying with us to help out and her birthday is Friday...she will be 65!...but shhhh...I didn't tell you that. Hannah again being a lovely little peach whispered to her yesterday to inform her that she will die at some point...again lovely.
What was really nice last night was that my mom, Hannah & I all snuggled in my bed to watch "Dancing with the Stars" together (Hannah only got to watch the first hour...and really wasn't even suppose to stay up watching that late but suckered me into it). That was a really nice moment to be laying in bed with my mom and my daughter commenting on the "Dancing Show" as Hannah calls it. It will definitely be a nice memory for me.
While Adam is gone my mom is staying with us to help out and her birthday is Friday...she will be 65!...but shhhh...I didn't tell you that. Hannah again being a lovely little peach whispered to her yesterday to inform her that she will die at some point...again lovely.
What was really nice last night was that my mom, Hannah & I all snuggled in my bed to watch "Dancing with the Stars" together (Hannah only got to watch the first hour...and really wasn't even suppose to stay up watching that late but suckered me into it). That was a really nice moment to be laying in bed with my mom and my daughter commenting on the "Dancing Show" as Hannah calls it. It will definitely be a nice memory for me.
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Diseased
Hannah was sent home from school yesterday with a fever. Last night she developed a rash with her fever and by this morning when I was home with her she had quite the rash spreading and a fever that still persisted. So off to the doctor's we went. Diagnosis...strep throat AND chicken pox!!! WTF??!! She has two different rashes, one that is just a bunch of red bumps in lots of places including her booty which is a strep throat rash, plus a culture was done and it confirmed the strep throat. Additionally she has round circle shaped rashes in several areas with little bumps or blisters in the middle which is the chicken pox. We had to be escorted out of the doctor's office through the back door...I was laughing. B/c of the chicken pox she is contagious for a week and cannot go to school until next Wednesday!!
You are probably wondering how did she get both of these things at once and aren't there vaccines for chicken pox? Well I have no idea how she got both of these things at once! She had her chicken pox vaccine at one but was suppose to get her booster at 4 and did not b/c she was getting her urinary reflux surgery at 4 and so the doctor and I decided to hold off on her 4 year old shots so she won't be tortured with them in addition to the trauma of the surgery. Last month I scheduled her for her 4 year old shots in June...obviously a little too late. So her pox won't be as bad b/c of her first shot at one but she will still get them. She CANNOT scratch them b/c if she breaks one open and gets bacteria in there it will go straight into her blood stream and she could get a bacterial blood infection...which she already had when she was one and was hospitalized. So lets hope this does not happen again!
Good times in the Morrill House. Poor Hannah.
You are probably wondering how did she get both of these things at once and aren't there vaccines for chicken pox? Well I have no idea how she got both of these things at once! She had her chicken pox vaccine at one but was suppose to get her booster at 4 and did not b/c she was getting her urinary reflux surgery at 4 and so the doctor and I decided to hold off on her 4 year old shots so she won't be tortured with them in addition to the trauma of the surgery. Last month I scheduled her for her 4 year old shots in June...obviously a little too late. So her pox won't be as bad b/c of her first shot at one but she will still get them. She CANNOT scratch them b/c if she breaks one open and gets bacteria in there it will go straight into her blood stream and she could get a bacterial blood infection...which she already had when she was one and was hospitalized. So lets hope this does not happen again!
Good times in the Morrill House. Poor Hannah.
Thursday, April 8, 2010
Easter is the BEST!!
Hannah has always loved Easter in her 4 years of life. She pretty much talks about it all year round. And Easter this year did not disappoint. We started off our Easter festivities on Saturday by going to the "Breakfast with the Bunny". Hannah was very excited to see the Easter Bunny and was happy to take a picture with him/her (what is the Easter Bunny a boy or a girl?). I was worried that Samantha might be scared of that bunny, but just like her sister was she very happy to see the bunny.
Hannah also took pictures with many other "characters". Here is McGruff the Crime Fighting Dog and below that is some random bear that Hannah AND Samantha LOVED. Again I am so happy Samantha was not afraid of these "characters".
After the breakfast we went off to participate in the parade. Really it is just a walk around the neighborhood behind a fire truck with the Easter Bunny on it and in the back is the Band-Uh. Regardless it was fun. Hannah rode her bike the whole way and I was proud of her.
Finally it was on to the Easter Egg Hunting. Samantha grabbed her Easter basket like it was a purse over her shoulder and went off to get the eggs. She was like an old pro, yet this was her first year hunting for eggs! Once she got out into the field of eggs though she put her basket down and would walk to get the eggs and then walk back to place them in her basket. Each kid could only get 3 eggs but how could we explain that to Samantha. So each time she turned around after dropping her eggs in the basket, Adam would grab 2 or 3 and throw them back out into the field of eggs. Each time Samantha would come back to drop more eggs into her basket, she would kind of pause and look into her basket. I was beginning to wonder if she was thinking "Is there a hole in this basket, where are all these eggs going that I keep putting in here?".
Sadly this is the "best" picture I could get of both of the girls together with their Easter baskets. They refused to both look at the camera or smile.
There were lots of other activities to do that day including:
Face Painting
Cookie Decorating:
And of course cookie eating:
Jumpy House:
And more pictures with the Easter Bunny:
Blowing the Easter Bunny kisses:
I have more pictures from Easter Day, I just haven't downloaded them yet or edited them. But as soon as they are done I will post them.
Hannah also took pictures with many other "characters". Here is McGruff the Crime Fighting Dog and below that is some random bear that Hannah AND Samantha LOVED. Again I am so happy Samantha was not afraid of these "characters".
After the breakfast we went off to participate in the parade. Really it is just a walk around the neighborhood behind a fire truck with the Easter Bunny on it and in the back is the Band-Uh. Regardless it was fun. Hannah rode her bike the whole way and I was proud of her.
Finally it was on to the Easter Egg Hunting. Samantha grabbed her Easter basket like it was a purse over her shoulder and went off to get the eggs. She was like an old pro, yet this was her first year hunting for eggs! Once she got out into the field of eggs though she put her basket down and would walk to get the eggs and then walk back to place them in her basket. Each kid could only get 3 eggs but how could we explain that to Samantha. So each time she turned around after dropping her eggs in the basket, Adam would grab 2 or 3 and throw them back out into the field of eggs. Each time Samantha would come back to drop more eggs into her basket, she would kind of pause and look into her basket. I was beginning to wonder if she was thinking "Is there a hole in this basket, where are all these eggs going that I keep putting in here?".
Sadly this is the "best" picture I could get of both of the girls together with their Easter baskets. They refused to both look at the camera or smile.
There were lots of other activities to do that day including:
Face Painting
Cookie Decorating:
And of course cookie eating:
Jumpy House:
And more pictures with the Easter Bunny:
Blowing the Easter Bunny kisses:
I have more pictures from Easter Day, I just haven't downloaded them yet or edited them. But as soon as they are done I will post them.
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Happy St. Patrick's Day!
Yesterday Hannah asked me if I had anything green to wear for St. Patrick's Day. I told her I don't think I do b/c I don't really have green in my closet. She said I could wear her green clover necklace that her Nali sent her (thank you Nali) on St. Patrick's Day so that I don't get pinched by the Leprechaun. I thought this was really sweet. Well I managed to find pants last night with a green hue to them (more like olive but they will do) to wear today. This morning as I am leaving for work Hannah hears me and yells "Mommy!". So I go running into her room..."Mommy, are you going to wear my clover necklace to work so that you don't get pinched by the Leprechaun?". Ahhh...how sweet. I told her I found some pants that were green so I was o.k for today. So I turn to leave and she then yells again "Mommy!". I come back and she says "Do you get to search for the Leprechaun's gold at work today too?". I laugh and tell her that she can search for me at school to which she goes into a long a story about how she is only going to borrow the Leprechaun's gold for about a week and then will return it to him. To this I am wondering why can't she keep it? We could sure use that gold. :)
Periodically Tulip wacks her tail in so much excitement that she cracks the end of it open and blood goes all over the walls as she continues to wack her tail against the wall. This results in a lovely "murder" like looking scene in our house as there is blood all over our white walls. Usually it takes us a while to figure out she did this as she goes all over the house spreading her tail blood. Yesterday, was a day she did this. When we discovered it I quickly started cleaning it up. Hannah sat right next to me saying "you missed a spot, here is another spot you missed, oh and another". Thanks Hannah. Then in a little bit she said with much excitement "Mommy can I help you?!" Sure, so I gave her a wipe and away she went helping me clean the bloody walls. About a minute later Samantha came toddling up, looked at what we were doing, grabbed a wipe and started rubbing the walls too! It was so cute! So there were both of my girls happily helping me clean the bloody walls. My mom says I am super lucky to have such good helpers, which I know I am. She said when they are older, they can clean the house while I just sit there on the couch saying "you missed a spot". :)
Periodically Tulip wacks her tail in so much excitement that she cracks the end of it open and blood goes all over the walls as she continues to wack her tail against the wall. This results in a lovely "murder" like looking scene in our house as there is blood all over our white walls. Usually it takes us a while to figure out she did this as she goes all over the house spreading her tail blood. Yesterday, was a day she did this. When we discovered it I quickly started cleaning it up. Hannah sat right next to me saying "you missed a spot, here is another spot you missed, oh and another". Thanks Hannah. Then in a little bit she said with much excitement "Mommy can I help you?!" Sure, so I gave her a wipe and away she went helping me clean the bloody walls. About a minute later Samantha came toddling up, looked at what we were doing, grabbed a wipe and started rubbing the walls too! It was so cute! So there were both of my girls happily helping me clean the bloody walls. My mom says I am super lucky to have such good helpers, which I know I am. She said when they are older, they can clean the house while I just sit there on the couch saying "you missed a spot". :)
Sunday, March 7, 2010
In Need of an Update
So it's been a while. I feel like there is a reoccurring theme to my blogs...I post on a regular basis for a while and then there is a loooooooong pause. So when I come back from my loooong pause I usually have a lot to share, so here I go:
Samantha has started taking care of things including her babies...
and Tulip:
She loves to drag her blanket around and tuck Tulip in and she loves to take care of her baby. I still remember when Hannah started doing this. It is the point when they become one of the older kids in the Infant Room at school and start copying the teachers taking care of the smaller babies in there. Samantha holds her baby, pats it, wraps it in her blanket, and then every now and then gives it a little love bite. Well this baby that she takes care of has no hair and at school there is a little baby boy who also appears bald, although he has a little bit of hair. Apparently Samantha was taking care of him one day, helping him with his pacifier when all of a sudden she took a bite out of his left cheek! Poor guy! They said she was super quick. They didn't understand why he was the only little boy she would go after and why she wasn't biting when they would expect her to bite...perhaps out of frustration or when she was mad. Well it took me about a week but when I saw her taking care of her baby one night it occurred to me that she thinks this little bald headed baby is also the almost bald headed baby boy at her school. So we obviously don't let her bite on her baby anymore. Silly girl. Although I can't blame her b/c she has 8 teeth coming in at the same time and she almost has all her teeth (minus her 2 year molars).
A little while back we went to the park and Hannah loved going down the slide in a little different way:
Just thought those were funny pictures.
A lot of our blossom trees have really started blooming and we have started to refer to them as "snow trees", because I mean come on doesn't it look like it just snowed. Hannah loves to find these trees and yell snow trees!
My mom and Hannah had a great time knocking down the flower blossoms and pretending it was snowing on them:
Right across the street from Hannah's school is a huge field full of yellow flower weeds that are growing tremendously tall. There are also tons of ladybugs. Hannah's class took a "field trip" there and she has not stopped talking about it since. So last week we took a few trips across the street after school and enjoyed looking at the ladybugs. This is usually the view of Hannah I would get when I would turn around and find her looking at a ladybug.
Samantha would get really excited about the ladybugs. She would stand there and point at the ladybug and stamp her legs all excited as if to say "do you see that little thing, it is moving!". This is all just before she would try to lean down and squish it while attempting to pick it up. It was really hard to get her to stop doing that.
At one point I was looking at a ladybug with Hannah when I turned around and found Samantha with a weird look on her face and I knew she had something in her mouth. I quickly pried it out and found out she was chewing/sucking on a slug. Lovely.
Here are some wonderful sister moments:
Hannah and Samantha are really interacting a lot more now and it is really heartwarming. Above Hannah was picking Samantha some flowers b/c she kept pointing at them and Samantha was really happy to get these flowers from her sister. They were so happy that they hugged...awwww.
Yesterday we went to the Farmer's Market for "Pig Day" and there were pony rides. Yeah I know...you are probably thinking what is pig day?...yeah I don't know. But Samantha took her first pony ride:
She loved it but I am sure she thought she was on a big dog. Hannah of course loved her pony ride...she had been talking about it all week b/c she knew that there were going to be pony rides at the Farmer's Market this weekend.
After the market and then gymnastics we went to Woodstock's for lunch and Samantha and Hannah enjoyed watching the pizza being made. Samantha kept trying to climb up over the glass...I think she wanted to make one herself.
Finally today West Plainfield Station Fire Dept had its annual Pancake Breakfast. We had a yummy breakfast and enjoyed playing there for some time. Here is Adam cooking...
So I am all caught up now...hopefully I can stay caught up. :)
Samantha has started taking care of things including her babies...
and Tulip:
She loves to drag her blanket around and tuck Tulip in and she loves to take care of her baby. I still remember when Hannah started doing this. It is the point when they become one of the older kids in the Infant Room at school and start copying the teachers taking care of the smaller babies in there. Samantha holds her baby, pats it, wraps it in her blanket, and then every now and then gives it a little love bite. Well this baby that she takes care of has no hair and at school there is a little baby boy who also appears bald, although he has a little bit of hair. Apparently Samantha was taking care of him one day, helping him with his pacifier when all of a sudden she took a bite out of his left cheek! Poor guy! They said she was super quick. They didn't understand why he was the only little boy she would go after and why she wasn't biting when they would expect her to bite...perhaps out of frustration or when she was mad. Well it took me about a week but when I saw her taking care of her baby one night it occurred to me that she thinks this little bald headed baby is also the almost bald headed baby boy at her school. So we obviously don't let her bite on her baby anymore. Silly girl. Although I can't blame her b/c she has 8 teeth coming in at the same time and she almost has all her teeth (minus her 2 year molars).
A little while back we went to the park and Hannah loved going down the slide in a little different way:
Just thought those were funny pictures.
A lot of our blossom trees have really started blooming and we have started to refer to them as "snow trees", because I mean come on doesn't it look like it just snowed. Hannah loves to find these trees and yell snow trees!
My mom and Hannah had a great time knocking down the flower blossoms and pretending it was snowing on them:
Right across the street from Hannah's school is a huge field full of yellow flower weeds that are growing tremendously tall. There are also tons of ladybugs. Hannah's class took a "field trip" there and she has not stopped talking about it since. So last week we took a few trips across the street after school and enjoyed looking at the ladybugs. This is usually the view of Hannah I would get when I would turn around and find her looking at a ladybug.
Samantha would get really excited about the ladybugs. She would stand there and point at the ladybug and stamp her legs all excited as if to say "do you see that little thing, it is moving!". This is all just before she would try to lean down and squish it while attempting to pick it up. It was really hard to get her to stop doing that.
At one point I was looking at a ladybug with Hannah when I turned around and found Samantha with a weird look on her face and I knew she had something in her mouth. I quickly pried it out and found out she was chewing/sucking on a slug. Lovely.
Here are some wonderful sister moments:
Hannah and Samantha are really interacting a lot more now and it is really heartwarming. Above Hannah was picking Samantha some flowers b/c she kept pointing at them and Samantha was really happy to get these flowers from her sister. They were so happy that they hugged...awwww.
Yesterday we went to the Farmer's Market for "Pig Day" and there were pony rides. Yeah I know...you are probably thinking what is pig day?...yeah I don't know. But Samantha took her first pony ride:
She loved it but I am sure she thought she was on a big dog. Hannah of course loved her pony ride...she had been talking about it all week b/c she knew that there were going to be pony rides at the Farmer's Market this weekend.
After the market and then gymnastics we went to Woodstock's for lunch and Samantha and Hannah enjoyed watching the pizza being made. Samantha kept trying to climb up over the glass...I think she wanted to make one herself.
Finally today West Plainfield Station Fire Dept had its annual Pancake Breakfast. We had a yummy breakfast and enjoyed playing there for some time. Here is Adam cooking...
So I am all caught up now...hopefully I can stay caught up. :)
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