Big City Weekend

This weekend was a girls weekend trip to my cousins bridal shower in CT, well mostly Girls my brother did go. This was the first time I was doing an over night trip with my 9 month old daughter. The kind of over night trip that's two far away to run back home if your child has a panic attack on the mass pike. Surprising to me..she wasn't a problem on the car ride at all, besides getting mildly annoyed towards the end of our 3.5 hour ride she was pretty good. We did have to stop several times but not for the baby or the 8month pregnant lady in the car but for my 25 year old brother that just drank a cup of coffee and had to pee every hour. There was a moment durning the trip where he where he almost peed in an old Dunkin Donuts cup the only thing that stopped him was that he couldn't do it sitting down..between that and the farting and constants radio changing i was glad that he was my brother so that I could verbal abuse him and not get shit for it later....Aww almost 4 hours later nothing like showing up to a CT bridal shower to make you feel like a northern Maine red neck. Can we just talk about how my old navy "fancy shirt" was their Tuesday lounge wear. These woman were dressed to the nine, there was couch, prada, and Gucci labels everywhere.."Who's cute baby is that?" "Oh you mean the one eating dirt and throwing her shoe at people that would be mine" the dresses the were being worn were dresses I would of expected to see at the wedding not a bridal shower I can't even imagine what people are going to wear to this wedding...:::Note to self, show up late when everyone is already drunk so they don't remember what you looked like:::: Any who seeing how I have decided that my diet starts Monday I went to town on the awesome spread of food they had, cause if there's one thing about these gatherings you can always count on good food...Mini sandwiches on croissant rolls, I mean I'm use to at least hot dog buns or the plain ol' bread this was amazing..huge fruit bowls with real fruit not the kinda you get from a can, Cesar salad, pasta salad, cake cookie, cheese and crackers yummy..After stuffing myself and my bag with delicious food, and my kid pooping out her birth weight it was time to wrap it up and head to my grams house were we will be spending the night. Its the moment of truth...I look over i see the eye rub from my daughter..the sleep eyes, the annoyed look at all her toys...oooh the classic back arch out of your arms pick me up..put my down...no wait pick me back up..Yes it was time for bed this was the moment i feared for this whole trip, I went to put her down doing our normal bedtime routine, just like parents magazine told me to do, put her into the pack and play ....and all hell breaks lose, shes screaming and screaming..so i give her some time to relax, but pretty much tire herself out and you know what it worked..it was quiet Jesus Mary and Joesph as my brother would say i cant believed it work ahh yes i am the master victory dance for me....4 hours later shes awake..damnit...and shes pissed...its not 2am I'm half awake and mildly confused as to where I am cause I make my way over to her pick her up  give her a bottle change her diapers and rock her to sleep. I notice her Chubs are cold so think, as any super mom would maybe I should put her long pj pants on cause maybe she is cold. I put her on the bed, fishing through my suit case at the foot of the bed with my right hand, my left hand on her stomach i can not find them of course even though i just had them hours before..So I give her my cell phone to play with let go of her stomach to hold up the suit case flap for 2 secs look up and she has ninja rolled to the other side of the bed and was falling face first off the bed. It was like watching in in slow mo, this can not be good of course she freaks out and is now screaming, i start crying cause i feel like a horrible mom, and freak myself out that she is going to have a brain hemerage or something so decided that she is going to lay in bed with me the rest of the night..There curled up in my arms on the bed my daughter slept so peacefully it was like watching a hallmark commercial. How do I know this you ask...well I couldn't let her fall off the bed twice in one night I was already not getting my mom of the month prize I couldn't lose my chance of mom of the year...so I stayed away dozing off from time to time waking up at the slightest moment or weird breathing I heard, and just like clockwork 615am lil baby bear blinks her eyes smiles at me and wants to immediately wants to get up and play..no morning snugglefest for this mom..no we are dancing and playing with measuring cups..after my last delicious breakfast before my diet (waffles,sausage,bacon,toaster strudels) we headed home..all and all good weekend fun times Diet Starts Monday!!