First weekend away :(

Yep, just as the title reads, Shonna and I spent our first nights together sans Scarlett. We went to Corrine's wedding in Cape Cod and left our daughter in my aunt Cathy's good hands. Its been tough! We are at the airport waiting for our flight, so as of now we still haven't seen her. We dropped her off Thursday night and spent many hours since looking at pictures and video to get our fix. We tried not to bother Cathy too much (3 calls on Friday, only one yesterday, and about to make our first today), although Cathy fully expected us (Shonna) to bombard her with calls every hour on the hour. We both know Scarlett is having a great time, especially considering there are 5 girls, not including my aunt, teens through early 20's (poor Mark, the only male out of 7+ 2 infants.)

We weren't worried about leaving her at Cathy's house, we were worried that Scarlett would start crawling and we'd miss it! She is getting sooooooo close and has all of the tools, but she can't coordinate her arms and legs together just yet. Well, at least not going forward. She can travel backwards although her intentions are to move forward. Apparently she has been making her rounds in reverse around Cathy's house, and Cathy has the video camera ready if she is able to figure out how to move forward. We hope this doesn't happen for 2 reasons. 1. We are selfish :) and 2. We are not ready for her to start crawling around the house just yet. It isn't baby proofed, and more importantly, as we mentioned in a previous blog, we enjoy knowing where she is at all times (I guess that is selfish as well :) ).

Back to the travel- Shonna and I went back and forth trying to decide whether or not to take Scarlett with us. As a matter of fact, we are STILL talking about it. We flew up to Boston with babies on board, and we are flying back with the same. Kind of adds to some of the guilt we feel, especially when we engage the parents in conversation and talk about kid travel. We also regret it because she might not travel any easier when she really starts moving/crawling. It is getting harder to put her down because she is so excited about her new movements, and the more she learns how to move, the more energetic she becomes when we try to keep her still. I guess in the long run, its good to know we can make it this long, and that we know she is in good hands.......

......Well we just returned from our trip with a healthy extremely happy baby! As it turned out, Scarlett had an audience consisting of NINE girls (my cousin Jenn had 4 college friends visit), my Aunt Cathy, and Mark the lone XY in the entire household. How did he do it???? :) Well he has his business to attend to, so I'll bet he spent most of his time in his shop next door... renting, selling, and servicing landscaping equipment. I'm sure he has his hands full with work considering the weather has been so San Diego like with the addition of plenty of rain. Anyway, back to Scarlett- we are sooooo blessed to have a baby this patient and awesome. She went out to dinner with us on the way home and was of course the center of attention from us and everyone who sat next to us. We are very lucky parents! Apparently the new diet of solids is catching up to us and her diapers. Blowouts are becoming the norm, and she didn't disappoint on our drive to the restaurant. Good thing we were stocked with plenty of clothes. Love you no matter how big a mess you leave us, Scarlett! She was REALLY fighting sleep tonight, but she still fell asleep really quickly. I think we are all feeling much more relaxed now that we are together again -- we will all sleep well tonight!