Dallas made us all sick…

Wednesday, March 4th, 2009 | Anna, Updates

Literally. Dallas made me, Anna and Mike all sick. Granted, I can’t blame the actual city of Dallas, but still, I have to blame someone.

I am finally beginning to recover from the two viruses we picked up on our trip to Dallas, and so can finally sum up our trip.

Anna did really well on the trip – I’m so proud of her, she missed multiple naps, never got regular meals, spent far too much time in the car seat and did really well sleeping in the play pen in the hotel room. All this and she was working on getting her first top tooth. She also did really well getting held and passed around by multiple people she had never seen before. She was in constant demand by all of the relatives, and was always a good smiley girl.

She snuggled a lot with Mike’s Uncle Dave, who seemed to have a real soft spot for her:

Anna and Uncle Dave

Of course, wouldn’t you know it my camera battery died right after I took these pictures, so I have no pictures of Anna with Aunt Pat (Dave’s wife) and Aunts Evelyn, Barbara and Becky. Don’t worry, they did plenty of holding her as well, but without my camera, you’ll just have to believe me.

After I got my battery recharged we spent some time with Mike’s dad and his sister Marylou. Marylou and Anna played a little as well and did some quality snuggling:

Anna and Marylou

Mike’s dad did a little playing with her as well:

Anna and Grandpa Munhall

The most fun that we had while we were in Dallas was at the house of Mike’s friends Heidi and J.J., who have kids of their own. There were plenty of toys there and it was babyproofed, a nice break from Mike’s parent’s house and our hotel room, which were not. Anna and the kids even did a little wrestling – Anna won of course:

Anna with Heather and Graham

It was really good to get home and get back to our normal activities. We got her straight into the bath and she seems happy to be home in this picture:

Anna after her bath

This was taken before she (and Mike and I) all got the cold and the stomach virus. We didn’t take any pictures of that – be thankful!

She’s starting to feel better these days and so in a constant search for trying new foods that she can feed herself, I gave her a little hummus to try for lunch. She seemed to like it:

Anna and hummus

We were even feeling well enough on Monday to head to the park with Rhiannon and Brendan. Anna loves the swing:

Anna in the swing

And then yesterday we were feeling well enough to head downtown for lunch with Mike. Anna charmed everyone around us at the Cheesecake Factory and then it was back to work:

Anna and Mike's desk

I think if she could tell us what she was thinking it would be something along the lines of, “Isn’t this child labor?”

Anyway, we survived Dallas, the two viruses we got while we were there and now Anna is working on getting lots of teeth. There’s still not much sleep around here, but we’re home and that’s what counts…