Trip 3- Day 7

Friday started off wonderfully...Little slept another great nights sleep and woke up all smiles! We went down to breakfast and she ate two bowls of yogurt, some peaches and banana, and some bread. Her chewing has already improved, just giving her firmer textured food, she just never needed to before! She LOVED feeding herself today...looking forward to putting her in the high chair to have full permission to get messy...right now she is eating on the floor or in the stroller.
 

I was picked up at 9:30am to go pick up Rush's passport. So, Grandma got to have some one on one time with Rush at the hotel. The same procedure that was required to request her passport on Monday is the same to pick it up...pick a number, stand or sit if a chair becomes available, and wait for your number to be called up to the window. Not much fun for a little busy body. :) So, she had a date with Grandma that included playing with toys, taking another BELOVED bath, and napping. 

I took it as a wonderful sign of bonding that the whole time I was gone I was having mommy anxiety...not because my mommy isn't capable (SHE IS ONE OF THE BEST) just that it was those "first time leaving you" worried feelings! They had a wonderful time together and she was peacefully napping when i returned, passport in hand.

 Reading books with Mama.

 Sweetest smile EVER!!!

 She is signing and saying "MORE" with appropriate usage already during meals. Here she is signing more.

 So happy to feed herself!

She LOVES playing with this little noisy stick!

And is obsessed with boots...her boots...mama's boots...grandma's boots...

We hope to get out of the hotel today as my mom and I are having a little cabin fever! It has been really rainy out and then yesterday she took a 4 hour nap, then was hungry, then it was getting dark. So hopefully today will be filled with an outdoor adventure of ANY kind! :)

We are at the part of this trip that we feel like "we have baby girl, now we would like to go home now, thank you!" We are SO ready. She is doing just wonderfully...she has been so brave with all the changes to her world this week. It's been hard because Rowdy has been out of sorts and missing his mama...and when he is out of sorts so is Papa...ready to get home to the boys. Please pray for my baby boy's days...he is struggling.

I am so happy that my momma has been here to experience all of this! She has been doing what our mommies do best...taking care of us. Doing laundry in the bath tub, making endless cups of tea/coffee/hot cocoa, mixing up instant soup or potatoes, making beds/cleaning up, grabbing wipes and tissues at request and just playing. WE ARE SO BLESSED BY YOU MOMMA!!  I LOVE YOU!!

Last night, as I lay my sweet girl in her crib to go night-night...it was the first time (and I'm certain won't be the last) that her bottom lip stuck out and her sweet blue eyes welled with tears...just threatening to spill over onto her cheeks...I pick her up and rocked her and told her I knew it was all just SO DIFFERENT than what she was used to...we are different, this room is different, the food is different, your bed is different...and that it is okay for her to feel sad but that I love her more than she has even known love and won't leave her...ever. She kept patting my chest as I rocked her saying, "mama" and i would smile over and over again and say, "yes, mama"...I laid her back in bed after some time and she went right to sleep.

 Sweet daughter...

you 

are 

so

 BRAVE.

And I am so beyond blessed...

"And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnstly seek him." Hebrews 11:6