Indiana part two

Well, Ella did wake up just a few minutes after I finished the last post. I think it was like 7:30. She decided that she wasn't happy sleeping in a pack n play by herself in a strange house. I am glad we decided not to go out for Valentine's Day for dinner and leave Ella sleeping with Grandma and Uncle Keegan. I am sure they could have handled it, but I would have been stressing, worrying about if she was going to wake up and be confused about where she was and where I was. I guess maybe it was a little bit of Mother's intuition, because she did wake up and needed her mommy to help her get back to sleep.

The rest of the trip was just fine. Ella did quite well with all the comings and goings and although she did not sleep very well, she tolerated everything just fine.

Sitting with 

                                                                Great Grandma Day!

A kiss from

                                                                                     Uncle Keegan.

Grandma reading to Ella 

                                                                              about Irish cooking!

Grandma feeding Ella

Ella and Grandpa

Here is Ella with her cousin that is 5 1/2 weeks older than her, Kallie (not sure if I spelled it right?)
And Yogi of course.







When we woke up to leave on Monday morning, there was about 5 inches of fresh snow on top of the already covered ground and it was still coming down hard. We decided to hurry up and get on the road before Ella's morning nap. There was quite a bit of white knuckle driving. The roads were pretty slick and it just kept snowing! We drove in it for quite a few hours. Luckily Ella had no idea what a treacherous situation we were driving in and slept peacefully for the first 2 1/2 hours. She was spent from such a busy trip!

But we made it home. It took about 8 1/2 hours. We did stop to have lunch at McDonalds (heehee, Ella's first McDonalds stop, and no, she didn't eat anything).

We let Ella do a little driving.










And stopped at a big book outlet where we bought Ella a few more books for night time reading. We might have to make that a normal stop on our way to and from Indiana in the future!

The end.