Sick mommy

I have a terrible cold :( the worst part about having a cold and being pregnant?.... No medicine! I've been using steamy showers and my netti  pot but I'm still blowing my nose 100+ times a day. I'm so tired I have been going to bed when Callie goes to bed. So bear with me as there probably won't be photos or posts for a few days. We called PaPa today to wish him a Happy Birthday and Callie asked if he was in his barn. Apparently he spends all his time there according to Callie.

I did have this last photo left from GiJu visit. She got Callie a car ramp and a few matchbox cars. Who would have known it would be such a hit?! Loads of fun watching them zoom!

Christmas #2

Callie had Cristmas number two with the Chavez family last night. Boy was she excited all over again to open presents. She got a new kitchen to have at MaMa and PaPas house with a hello kitty water cooler to go in her kitchen. A Minnie Mouse table and chairs. A Minnie Mouse vanity and a doll with hair to brush and the entire hair do bag o tricks. It has a working blow dryer, curling iron, flat iron, comb, brush and bows. She had a good time and was sad to go home when we said all the toys had to stay. But lucky for her we are back today for the Chargers game and she is contently playing with all her new toys. She really wants us to fill up the water jug for her water cooler but I think it needs to wait a bit as I can see water everywhere if we fill it. What a lucky girl! Someone must have thought she was on the nice list :)

Driving Callie's new truck

For Christmas Juan and I bought Callie a power wheels truck, Mater from Cars movie. She is learning to drive it, but can't steer well. Here she is driving down the sidewalk outside, vrrrroooom!

for the dogs!!

Callie and GiJu made cookies for the dogs today. Callie enjoys cooking anything she can help with. This time it was pumpkin molasses dog cookies. When they were done she was feeding the dogs but kept nibbling a bite off each cookie. I said Callie those are for the dogs!! But she didn't listen and kept nibbling, just one bit out of each cookie she gave them. They are made out of all real human food ingredients but don't have sugar or butter or all the good stuff in human cookies. So it's not terrible she are them but I don't know why she kept trying them. I snapped her photo putting them all away in the jar and nibbling a few as she put them in. Crazy kid!

Swing.. I mean Slide

Callie now loves the slide. Se calls it the swing mistakenly a lot but she means the slide. It's set strange but she hates the swings. One swing and she wants off, but the slide she could do over and over. She is finally big enough to climb the stairs and go down the slide by herself. What a big girl! This afternoon we went to the park to play on the slides, all 3 of them. Callie wore herself out going up the stairs and down the slides per and over. Now hopefully she is tired enough that she sleeps past 4:40 am , her new wake up time. Changing time zones is not easy for a baby ya know? I told her tomorrow she has to stay in her bed until the sunlight comes out but at least 5:30 before I will go get her out of her bed.

Lost luggage

Well we made it home. It wasn't too fun but we made it. We woke up at 3:30 am to get ready to leave for our 6 am flight. We had no issues with the providence airport and we smoothly caught our first flight and checked all our bags. We had 5 bags because of all the toys from Christmas, new baby clothes I bought on super sale, and huge box of clothes Taylor sent as hand me downs, plus a car seat. It was snowing in Chicago Midway and our flight was delayed waiting for a late plane from NY who had passengers transferring to our plane. Then we sat on the plane for 90 minutes on the runway waiting to have the plane deiced before we could leave. Just adding 90 min to time to sit in an airplane seat is no fun, especially for a little active 20 month old girl. Luckily this flight there was an empty seat so Callie got to sit in the middle between GiJu and I. This was sooo much better than her being on my lap where she had no room. I guess that's why they make you get a seat at 2 years old. It ended up being a nearly 6 hr flight instead of 4 hr 20 min. Callie was as good as she could be, antsy and impatient but no screaming or crying so I dot think we bothered anyone else on the plane.

Anyways when we finally arrived at San Diego it took forever for the bags to come out. We waited and waited. By now Callie was having a meltdown as she hadn't had lunch. Well, we waited until the bag belt stopped and NONE of our 5 bags arrived. So we stood in line to put in a claim to our bags. What a nightmare... Callie is missing her car seat, sleeping bag, sound machine, clothes, almost everything. GiJu has no clothes. I am missing my maternity pants and my night guard for girding my teeth, I miss that the most.

Today they found 3 of the 5 and said they would deliver them to the house. Well now they didn't deliver, messed up somehow and they will arrive tomorrow. The other 2 are still missing. I don't en know which ones try found... Ugh

All Callie's Christmas presents and tons of clothes and gifts are all packed away in those suitcases. Hopefully they find them all soon :(

Meanwhile today I dug out all the girl clothes we had put away in the attic to give away to my friend Kristen who is expecting a girl in the next 3 weeks or so. Wholly cow did we have girls clothes!! Check out Callie in all the boxes of clothes. It was fun to see all the adorable outfits she used to wear and how small she was. Too bad we aren't having a girl because we would have been more than set. Oh well, passing them on to a new good home. Enjoy!

Time to say goodbye to CT

Today was our last day in CT. It was also the coldest day by far. When we left the house in the morning it was -4 degrees not including the windchill. Yep pretty cold if you ask me or Callie.

We went to have breakfast at GaGa and Ashley's house in the morning. Callie played hi ho cherry-o with GaGa.

We ran some errands in the day and started the massive packing attempt which I just completed at 9 pm.

Uncle Eddie and Heather came over to have dinner and visit with Callie. After dinner Callie was snuggling with Eddie and watching Curious George on the iPad. She didn't take her eyes off the pad for a moment even with that cookie in her hand!

We had a great time visiting everyone in CT this holiday season. I am however ready to go home to some normal temperature weather. Today in San Diego it was 76 degrees. I'll be thrilled to enjoy some warmth tomorrow afternoon. Until then wish me luck on this looong plane journey. GiJu is flying back to help out and it's a really early flight. I have no idea how it will go. Just hoping for the best and reminding myself it can only last so long and then we will be home with no plans to fly until late summer :)