Hailey's first vacation

I love this pictures above, it was taken the morning we were leaving for our trip. You can't see the baggie in her hand very well, but she was packing her hair clips!

We returned yesterday from our vacation excursion to PA/MD. We had a great time, but realized Hailey does not travel well. This was her first long trip away from home and she did not like it at all. My baby who LOVES to eat decided to refuse to eat. I have never dealt with this before and it really scared me. She also, woke up numerous times at night crying and just thrashed around. We ended up with her in our bed every night.

We traveled Thursday, and then Friday got up early to head to MD (an hour from our friends house in PA) to visit Johns Hopkins etc ... Everyone I worked with was amazed at how great she looks and she defintely put on a show for them. Sadly, most of the nurses that took care of her in the NICU were not working the day we went to visit! She also completed the study she was in, but she wasn't very cooperative to say the least. It was after we left the hospital that she had her meltdown. I thought she was going to make herself sick so we cancelled further plans and headed back to the house ...

The rest of the trip was much more relaxed! Saturday we spent the morning relaxing, and then we ended up going to Dutch Wonderland in Lancaster with Wayne, Kim and Travis. We didn't make it to Sesame Street Place because the weather was on the cooler side with showers. That afternoon while having lunch we noticed part of the reason Hailey is refusing to eat. The night before we left Hailey fell on Meme and Papa's gravel driveway and cut her lip, it bled for quite a while, but I thought it was just on the outside of her lip, I didn't realize how bad it was inside! We had a paramedic at Dutch Wonderland look at it and he said it didn't look infected so we have just been keeping an eye on it, but that could be part of the reason she is not eating so well.

Here are some pictures from Saturday's trip to Dutch Wonderland!





They were celebrating character days at the park and had all kinds of characters including Santa. For some reason Hailey loves anthing dressed up and was running around the park screeching. It was really funny!



Sunday we went out to breakfast with Jason, Mihaela and Kalyn (3). Mihaela is 32 weeks pregnant with a little boy!!! They just moved into a beautiful new house the day we arrived so we didn't get to visit them for long with all that was going on, but it was great to see them! That afternoon, we went to the Strasburg Railroad. Travis loves trains and had a great time. I think Hailey would have enjoyed herself more if it wasn't for her lack of sleep. Notice how tired she looks in the pix below. Not a smile in sight ...





On Monday we headed home and stopped in MA to visit some friends who just moved to the area from DC. We are so excited because they are now only 45 min away and their daughter Sidney is only a little younger than Hailey. They will have lots of fun growing up together!



So, all in all, it was a fun trip and we had a blast seeing our friends (thank you Wayne, Kim and Travis!), but our little angel didn't take the travel so well. She will have many vacations ahead so lets hope she grows out of this stage! The good news in the nighttime crying is done with - I think she was just relieved to be in her own bed :-)