Getting Ready for our First Trip

Well I took katie to the doctor one more time to get her all checked out and looked at to make sure she was ok to travel and she was! the only thing i was upset about that the doctor told me was katie has lost some weight since she has been sick. at 9 months katie weighed 19 lbs 12 oz and at 10 months we went in for something I forget what it was and she was down about 2 oz and then when i went in this time just shy of 11 months she has dropped another 4 oz. so in the last 2 months she has dropped about 6 oz. she is down to 19 and a half pounds which is still fine but this cold for over 2 weeks really took it out of her. the doctor told me 2 things. 1. until they are 2 years old, when they get sick, any and all calories they take in go towards fighting off the sickness rather than towards gaining weight. (huh didn't know that) and 2. don't give up on her favorite foods just yet (cus i told her katie wasn't' eating things she usually loved and never turn away) because eating has a lot to do with smell. huh. i did not know that. so the reason she isn't eating much is cus she can't smell if cus she is so congested. well thank you doctor for answering my questions. see ya in another 11 months i hope for her next cold. yeah fat chance but good to know she is doing alright and everything that happened to her during her first cold was normal.

I'm getting all packed and ready to take our first trip together. Bri can't go but I'm taking Katie up to Connecticut to see my Grandmother, katie's Great Grandmother. I think that's so cool to say. Great Grandmother. that's pretty impressive if ya ask me! unfortunately my grandma isn't doing so well and all she wants is to meet her only great grand daughter so we thought the trip was necesarry so my dad flew up from florida to get on the train with me and katie and get on up there to see her!
I have been asking around how to pack and what to pack and a bunch of girlfriends have given me good advice starting with advice about the train. oh did i forget to mention, we are taking the train up because i have a phobia of putting katie in the car for 6 hours when she has never done it before. i know i have to travel with her one day sooner rather than later but i'm trying to work up to it so i thought the train would be better because she could get up and move around and not be trapped in the car seat the whole time. anyway back to advice. my girlfriend told me to bring lots of snacks because it was a great time filler and to go out and get a sticker book. humm.... i thought a sticker book hummm??? but sure enough i went out to toys r us and bought katie a book with stickers. my girlfriend said the will love sticking them on you and on the train and on the paper. but key thing... Don't show it to her until the trip so its something brand new! ohh i hope it works!!!

another girlfriend of mine told me i didn't need much cus everything will be so new that she wont' even play with her toys she will just flip through new pots and pans, and maybe a different book, or just go through the boxes or shoes in their closet that toys weren't really a necessity, but even another friend told me that i need to pack everything but the kitchen sink. just bring it all. ya never know! i had to be careful how much i brought cus we weren't taking the car so we had to carry all we wanted with us. one thing i made sure we brought was katie's car seat. i did pack toys of course cus i didn't want to get up there and have her not have anything to play with; after all my grandma doesn't exactly have toys at her house. anyway back to the car seat, once we got to CT on the train we had to rent a car and drive a half hour to her house so i know i know i know u can rent a car seat to go in the rental cars but u know me, i'm a maniac about A. things being clean, and B. things being safe, and a rental car seat to me says neither of those things. so my poor dad has to lug around the car seat on the trip. now my dad is a big guy so he is gonna look about like Santa with a huge bag of toys on his back. i wouldn't be surprised if security stopped him. haha that would make his day. anyway instead of buying a car seat cover, i borrowed one from a girlfriend who is not a chicken about traveling with her baby, she has traveled in the car and plane with her little one and assured me its not so bad. actually everyone has told me to just get over it and go! so here we go. I'm all packed up and ready to go and tomorrow i will set out on my first trip without bri and my first trip as a mom. wish me luck!!!!