Trip to Utah

Well... our trip to Utah kept me offline.. nice for a change... Zoe and I had a mostly uneventful trip to Utah.. we read Dora books on the first (short) flight.. her new favorite is "Super babies".. but she also likes the school books. She slept most of the second flight.. I read.. it was nice. Rebecca and Hang picked us up and took us to my parents. This was the start of Zoe not going to be until way late.. which pretty much lasted the whole trip. I pulled out her Dora/Diego legos and she was happy to have them in her hands.

Saturday, we went to Barton's baptism... I foolishly did not bring her DVD player.. I don't know what I was thinking... I started her with cookies and crayons.. as the event started, she was saying, "Mommy, I'm crayoning"... "Mommy is crayoning"... "Mommy I tooted (repeat, loudly)"
ahhh.. so cute. She "lasted" half way, before she was running down the hallways, swinging on the doors, slaming doors... Heather's Dad came out and said she was distracting.. I gave up and took her outside to collect pine cones.
Then we went to the party at Barton's house.. it was fun.. but Zoe soon got very tired and I took her back to Mom's house because I was going to go out that night for the bachelorette party.

The party was fine.. Zoe had a good time with "Grammpa" and "Nana"... they took her next door to the trampoline.. and were impressed by her ability to bounce herself.. she loved it and refered to next door as the "park" for the rest of our trip.

The night ended when i called to check on her about 9:50pm and she was screaming.. tore my heart... I asked how long that had been going.. Mom said 10-20 minutes.. ugh.. I told her to turn on Dora, get her some milk... I drove straight home, fast.. she was tired, but sucked in by Dora/Diego.. didn't seem to notice I was home ;).. but she did fall asleep fairly fastly when we layed down.

The rest of the trip was busy.. at times, it was hard for me... Zoe is still a major Mommy's girl... Sometimes I didn't explain what I needed from my mom or sister (like the time they went shopping while I was watching Zoe running around the fountain, and then said they were sorry that they missed her playing... it is so hard to go shopping with Zoe, hardly worth it, I was a bit mad they didn't watch her while I went shopping)...
I didn't get very much of a break from her, but then again, I did enjoy being with her.. snuggling at night. As the trip went on though, we both were sleeping a little less restfully.. we both missed Bruce.

The one thing I did notice through the trip is that Zoe is really good at remembering names (I remember Bruce saying the same thing of Rachelle)... I introduced her to Auntie Margie.. and she always new her name.... that doesn't mean that she always got it right though.. she called a lot of people "Carrie".. ;) and all boys were "Tice"

Zoe had a really good time with her cousins too.. and we met up with Bruce on Thursday, then started the crazy wedding events...