North Carolina Trip

Here is a picture of Seth and Madison at the Concord Mall in Davidson NC.


Here are some pictures from our trip so far in North Carolina.

We finally began our road trip to North Carolina on Tuesday morning Feb 12th. We finally left the house around 9:00am and got on the road. Holly Cow, I never realized how much you have to pack for a baby. Seth has (4) large duffle bags filled with clothes, shoes, food, formula., play pen, bath tubs, I can go on and on. It truly was a mission to load the car with all of these items. Anyhow, we made it to davidson, North Carolina in about 12 hrs. We could have made it faster but with Seth we had to stop about 3 times for diaper changes and his food. But all in all it was not a bad road trip at all. Seth did wonderful, he was a trooper. He napped, eat, watched his baby einstein video's and then did more napping and he was just jolly. He actually did better than what I expected which was great.

We are spending a couple of days with some friends of ours and then Friday morning heading up to the mountains to meet with Herb's family that is also vacationing with us. When we got to davidson NC, it was about 9:00pm and it was in the 30's. Last night the weather was dropping in the 20's and the local news stated that the weather in the mountains were in the teens. It's going to be freezing up there.

Today, my friend and I and her 18mth old and sethey poo went to the mall to do some valentine day shopping, that was pretty fun. It was an outlet mall and the sales were great, I bought seth tons of clothes, like he needs more for a total of $35.00. Turtle necks .99 and a snow bib and another snow outfit for $7.00, the sale was too great to not purchase anything. I could not hold myself back.

I have to share what happened to me at the mall today with Seth's pacifier. From the beginning I did not want to give him a pacifier, I hate them and I think they are sooo not clean (no matter how much you wash them) but anyhow, because of the oral fixation that babies need and also the fact that a pacifier reduces the chance of SIDS by 80%, I figured I would deal with Seth sucking on them. Anyways, we walk into Carters and Seth is in his stroller, I was there maybe about 45 minutes, keeping and eye on the pacifier that Seth had, all was good, I continued to shop, we cashed out left carter's and went into the Disney store, by this time Seth is getting hungry and sleepy, so I look for the pacifier and it's no were to be found, I take seth out of the stroller, check his clothing, take out all the bags, by this time everyone in the store including seth was looking at me as I am frantically looking for this piece of plastic that this child of mine sucks on in order to go to sleep. I could not find it anywhere, I wave down my friend and tell her that I lost Seth's pacifier and I was going to have to back track my steps to see if I lost it on the way to the disney store. I ended back in Carters looking all over the floors frantically and it was no were to be found. I thought oh my it's not going to be fun to have to train seth all over again with a different pacifier, i've tried that already and he just does not take any other one. So as I am getting ready to leave the store, I go to the register (line is full) I cut through the line and there's like 4 cash register's, so asked one of them if anyone had found a pacifier, the girl on the end tells me, "Oh yeh I found one but it's in the garbage" I looked at her like if she was talking about a million dollars and I said, it's ok can you give it to me, I will wash it really good.

Low and behold, the pacifier was recovered and life was good for me again. May everyone have a lovely Valentines Day.