Fathers Day Weekend Sick at My Sisters

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This weekend for Fathers day we went to my sister’s to spend time with her family and my parents for Fathers day.  On mothers day we spent the day with MC’s mom on MC’s first mothers day and we did the same with my family for my first Fathers day.  We drove out to Carries on Saturday morning so we could spend the day and then we stayed over so we didn’t have to drive the entire trip both ways in a day.  We also left my dad’s car there since he is staying at my sisters while my mom is away in china.  We ended up driving back with my mom.

Unfortunately I got a migraine shortly after we got there in the early afternoon Saturday.  Even with the heavy duty drugs I really didn’t kick it Saturday.  I woke up still not feeling great Sunday.  Michael had to help me out a bit.  I was glad he was there.  It is very rare for me to get a migraine two days in a row.  I wasn’t happy that i missed a lot of the time hanging out with my family.  Teagan had a great time playing with her cousin’s.  Thankfully i wasn’t lying down the entire time.  I did get to play with the kids a bit on both days but for large chunks of both days i was out of commission.  I was glad it wasn’t worse than it turned out to be.  MC was fantastic picking up the slack when I couldn’t help with Teagan, and my mom and sister were also great.  I am always grateful for my family but on days like that especially so.

T Sitting Up Consistantly

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It’s T’s 9 month birthday and she decided to start consistently sitting up.  I say consistently because before today she would sit up every so often.  Today she is doing it often and what seems like deliberately.  It is funny she is doing this on her 9 month birthday because she started rolling over almost exactly on her 6 month birthday after randomly rolling over for a while before then.

M’s Parents Visit and Brunch

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M’s parents came to visit this weekend.  They came Saturday morning and stayed over night.  We had lunch at our house and they hung out and got to play with Teagan.  For dinner we went to Agora since M loves it.  We wanted to take her dad out for a belated birthday and early fathers day.  We had a really good dinner even if M had to take Teagan away from the table for a bit to feed her since she was being fussy.

Sunday some of M’s cousins (and a cousin’s girlfriend) came over and we all had brunch.  M made a french toast casserole.  It was really good.  She used the Paula Dean recipe she used when her brothers family came to visit on new years.  We had a good brunch.  It was good to see M’s cousin’s.  We hadn’t seen either of them for a year.  We also had cake for M’s dad’s birthday.

M’s parents left to go home in the mid afternoon after her cousins left.  It was a short visit but a good one since they hadn’t been over since before the new year.

My Dad’s 70th Birthday

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Today was my dad’s 70th birthday.  My sister and her family and MC, Teagan and I were supposed to meet up with my parents for dinner near my parents house.  As I was going to catch the train and meet up with MC she called that Teagan apparently had a fever.  I knew she spit up earlier but didn’t think anything of it.  Turned out she did it 2 more times.  MC had to go home and I went to dinner by myself.

The dinner was good.  We went to an italian place near my parents that my dad likes.  it was good to see Carrie, Michael and the kids as well.  My dad liked his present.  My sister and I got him an autographed football that had the autographs of 3 Giants players on it.  He is hard to shop for so I am glad we found something he liked.

After dinner I got a ride home from Michael.  By the time i got home Teagan was sleeping, but she got up briefly later on and we gave her more meds.  Hoping she feels better tomorrow.

Rocking Horse Ranch

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This weekend MC, Teagan, & I went away to the Rocking Horse Ranch with my parents, sister and her family to celebrate my dad’s upcoming 70th birthday.  It was the first trip away together since my mom’s 65th birthday in Wildwood.  I worked a half a day at home Friday so we could head up in the afternoon.  I am glad I did.  the rid up took almost 3 hours with traffic.  We ended up changing our route a few times and we stopped for 45 minutes at a diner to be able to feed Teagan.

It was raining most of the day and we were just glad to get to the place.  Carrie and the kids didn’t arrive till later than us so MC, Teagan and I ate dinner with my dad and my mom waited to have dinner with Carrie.  Nothing else really eventful happened Friday.

Saturday it was rainy all day.  We got up and went to breakfast after Teagan had her morning bottle.  The food was pretty good.  We loved the honey butter on our english muffin’s.  It blew my diet but very tasty.

We took Teagan into the pool for the first time today.  She really loved it.  We got a bunch of photo’s and video.  MC, my mom and I took Teagan on a horse drawn carriage ride.  Teagan liked seeing all the people but was a bit sleepy.

Saturday night dinner we ate as a family for my dad’s birthday.  It was nice.  Carrie arranged to have a cake.  Morgan and Zack gave little speeches.  It was very cute.  After dinner we got to get a few rare family photos with everyone.

Sunday the weather was a bit nicer.  We were able to get outside for a good part of the day.  MC took Teagan on another horse drawn carriage ride while I went with Carrie, Michael, the kids and my dad to play mini golf.  Zack declared himself winner but everyone contested at least privately and some publicly the fact that mathematically there was no way he could have won.

For lunch there was a big BBQ.  We ended up getting food and eating indoors because it was a bit cold but it was a decent BBQ.  MC took Teagan back into the pool.  I got some more photos but decided to stay out of the water this time.

We got to see some horses up close and Teagan got to pet them.  We also saw a few other animals.  Teagan also got to play on the swings for a little while and I was able to feed her outside in the afternoon even though by then it got a bit chilly.

Monday was the nicest day we were there, but we unfortunately only got to be there in the morning.  Everyone else stayed a bit later and got to goto the outdoor pool since it was finally nice enough.  We decided to take off at Teagan’s mid day nap to get home before all the anticipated traffic.  We avoided all of it and were pretty happy we got out when we did.  We probably could have stayed a bit later but we were glad to get home early.  We ended up going to the grassy area behind out building and sat out on the grass and played with Teagan.  It was nice.

Overall it was a great weekend.  One take away from the weekend was we realized the reason Teagan hasn’t been sleeping through the night recently and has been getting up early is because the sun comes into her room and wakes her.  With the hotel privacy curtains she slept till 7 2 out of the 3 nights and for the 3rd night slept pretty close to it.  We realized she wasn’t getting up because she went into a phase in March.  it was because the time zone change in early March made it lighter earlier.  That revelation will get us to buy black out curtains for her room.

The Queens Zoo

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We missed going to the Central Park Zoo when we were there a few weeks ago and then we had plans with family and friends for a few weekends. With this free weekend we wanted to give the zoo another try. This time we headed to the queens zoo. It was a fast 20 minutes on one bus and a few blocks walk. It was the perfect day. Teagan was up the entire trip to the zoo and then fell asleep right when we got there. MC and i got to walk around a bit and then walked around Flushing Meadow park. We were about to leave when Teagan woke up so we went back to the petting zoo part of the zoo and MC fed some animals and Teagan just watched intently.

We headed home after that but I started getting a Migraine and MC was tired from being up a long night, so the rest of the day was low key.

T Sitting Up?

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She has been sighted sitting up now and again but it is not a regular thing.  Like rolling over when she did it every so often we are waiting to see when she will just start sitting up on her own constantly.

My UP is Broken

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Today when I went to sync my Jawbone UP I discovered the end that you plug into your phone was recessed a bit.  It made it difficult to plug into my iphone.  In the end i was able to sync it but it was obvious the device was broken.  I contacted Jawbone support and they are going to send me a replacement unit since this one is under warrantee.  I have to just keep this one working until I get my replacement unit.  It may take a week to 10 days to get.

Breakfast in The Park

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Today we got up and got bagels (and some scones from the farmers market near austin) and walked with Teagan to a park off askan that is very grassy.  We sat out on a blanket and ate breakfast.  Teagan was tired so she didn’t play very much but it was a gorgeous day out so we were glad to be outside and relaxing.  We grabbed coffe at the french bakery off of Austin st and went home to hang out for the rest of the day.

It was good to get outside and then have the day to play with Teagan.