spring break 2010

We are home after a long week in Florida. We had a great time and the weather was perfect. It's always nice to get away but even nicer to come home, rested and refreshed. I enjoyed not planning meals and cooking all week but now am ready to get back into the swing of things.

Highlights from the trip:
* Mia rode her first pony! She wasn't scare at all, was very serious and had a natural position on her pony, Dylan. She loved it and I hope she will be a rider like I was growing up.
* Beach and pool time. We spent one day at clearwater beach (Mia loved digging in the sand with her shovel and filling up her dump truck and she liked making sand castles with daddy). Our hotel pool was on the roof deck and had a great view of Tampa Bay and a great sunset view too. Mia loved the pool and doing up and down with Daddy.
* Lowry Zoo (great zoo, very clean and huge, we didn't even get to walk the entire thing because Mia fell asleep). It was super crowded but we had a blast.
* Spring Training - our first day we headed to the Tigers baseball game and saw them play against the Pittsburg Pirates. Mia's favorite part was watching daddy throw her new ball to some boys and watching them play catch. She got her first Tigers baseball cap and a ball that daddy bought her.
* Children's Museum in St. Peterburg's - we went on Saturday and they had a bunch of Easter activities that Mia enjoyed, she saw real bunnies and the easter bunny himself
* Lots of good meals in Ybor City, Hyde Park, St. Petersburg and other areas we discovered. Mia especially liked the neat park we found in Hyde Park that had great equipment that was just her size. We had our Easter dinner at a greek restaurant to celebrate. Very yummy.
* relaxing, sleeping in and not doing any chores!
* We also checked out the World Cup Qualifier grand prix horse show where there were olympian riders that mommy used to watch when she was a little girl.

The not so fun stuff...TANTRUMS! Mia had a least one per day. Mostly when she was overtired and trying to do it herself. She is really into dressing herself and will get frustrated when she can't do it. The flight out to FL was great up until the last 10 minutes....then she did the scream all out tantrum that I dreaded on an airplane. Thankfully the plane ride home went much better and she did great.

She developed a fever yesterday and was very sleepy. At 6pm she said "mommy jammy, go sleep" so I changed her, she crawled into her new big girl bed by herself (first time ever sleeping in there) and went to sleep until 7am this morning. She didn't have a fever this morning so she went to Diane's and I hope she is ok. She was very excited to see Charlotte and play. Here she is in her big bed before we bought her new pillows and her bed rails were put up.

I will post more pictures later but these are just from my iphone: Daddy, Mia and Hank on the airplane, Mia riding Dylan (she looks so small!), Mom and Mia at sunset (moments before a huge I WANNA GO BACK TO THE POOL tantrum), Mia eating mexican, easter bunny ears and Clearwater beach.

I have officially hit 35 weeks!! Now it's time to get the hospital back packed, wash the baby clothes and get diapers and supplies! The countdown is on....