So no trip for me . . .

Isn't she cute?? Yeah well . . .

It's just not going to work. I left Gillian with Todd just for an hour at home while I took Mia with me to the store. She went NUTS! AND she was at home AND she was with her daddy! It doesn't get any better than that. So yeah we are not going to be leaving her with a complete stranger(to her). Gramma will likely go crazy and I don't want to be responsible for that! lol

Gillian is also coming down with a cold too so that doesn't help her. She was totally miserable yesterday too. Crying for little to no reason ie. wrong cup, tripping, dropping her snack - stuff that normally doesn't bother her. We should have known to stay home but silly me thought, Maybe if we go out she'll be happier!!! Works sometimes. But not this time. She just screamed her head off in the van nearly the whole time. Even Mia who isn't fazed by her noise was asking why she was crying so much and telling her to stop crying. We sang, tried snacks, drinks, books and again the usual stuff that entertains her was just not doing it's thing.

Todd made the unfortunate mistake of going an hour and a half away for a picnic. Once we got there we had to stuff our faces really fast as the wind was picking up and a storm was coming in! Wow it got cold fast. However once Gillian was out of the van and outside she was great. Very happy. She LOVES the great outdoors. Even when she was a baby and we couldn't settle down her crying . . . going outside always worked. She'd shut off like a lightswitch.

We had to race back to the van to load everything up. Before we left we popped into a cute little candy store. Gillian was doing great! Then we buckled her in and went on our way. Of course that is when the crying resumed and yup, it lasted for pretty much the entire ride back. We stopped once so I could do a check(maybe she pooped? nope) and then it started again as I was buckling her in.

So after much discussion(well maybe not MUCH because we are on the same page here) I'm going to stay home with the kids and Todd's going up to Ottawa with his friend. Oh no no no! I am very happy with this outcome!! I could have brought the kids up to the ils like we were going to and then stay there but why would I want to put myself through that?? Their place is not babyproofed, Gillian will likely be off even with me there, I won't sleep well because I'm weird like that(I have the worst time sleeping places other than at home in my bed which btw, is getting better so why turn around and make it worse?). I'm happy. We will go out and have fun so don't worry about us!