Today (oct 15) while trying to get vega to go to sleep in her crib,
she was doing everything she could to stay awake. I sang a song to
her, but she just stood back up and said "daddy" and smiled that
smile. I smiled at which point she said "nose" and pointed at my nose
then "ear" and pointed at my ear, then "dumb dumb" and pointed at my
forehead and started laughing. I couldn't help but laugh my ass off.
Two nights ago we took her to see a flamenco show. I was very worried
about keeping her up for the show because it started at 7:30p, her
normal bedtime. It turned out to be fantastic. The show would have
been good without her there but she was so into the show that it made
the whole thing much more fun. The first half of the show she sat
there mesmerized and clapped silently like she had castinets. Towards
the middle of the show she started getting really into it, dancing
around in our laps, waving her arms in the air and yelling YAY! when
each dancer finished. At the very end of it, during the big finale she
got off my lap and started spinning around on the floor, lifing up her
dress, waving her arms in the air and clapping her hands. At one point
she yelled Yay so loud two of the dancers laughed. They were all
waving to her at the end of the show. The entire walk back to our room
she sang and danced and then collapsed in a fit outside a pastisceria.
In england one day we went walking through the town of Ely. She saw
some horses grazing in a nearby field and darted off. By the time
anyone noticed she was halfway to the fence yelling "horsey horsey
horsey". The fence slowed her down enough for mom to catch her.
Also today (oct 15) we came across a plaza while trying to get her
some food. This plaza was filled with children playing with tricycles,
bicycles, trucks, skates, balls, etc. She saw this and pratically
jumped out of the stroller and went jumping and running into the
crowd. She tried to eat pidgeon food, she ran screaming into a flock
of 20+ pidgeons and nearly kicked one. She tried to steal bicycles,
balls and strollers. She ran around the whole time screaming like a
maniac. Unfortunately it was getting really late already and she
needed to go to bed, so we had to pull her away which literally caused
her to explode.
Also today we took her on a ride in a horse and buggy. She spent most
of the ride trying to climb into the driver's seat yelling "horsey
horsey" but by the end she had fallen asleep.
Three flights so far and during every single on of them she would not
sleep until the last five minutes. 4 hours to Chicago. 8 hours to
London. 2.5 hours to Sevilla. No sleep until just before landing. The
problem is she won't sleep unless the lights are off, which they only
do immediately prior to landing.
paris
- day 1 - arrival, n. dame, il de la cite, eiffel tower
- day 2 - orsay, champs elsyee
- day 3 - picasso museum, veggie food, julien, pompioud
sevilla
- day 1 - uber long day
- day 2 - cathedral, alcazar (thwarted)
- day 3 - alcazar (thwarted), decided to abort trip to granada
- day 4 - didn't go to granada
- day 5 - didn't go to granada
- day 6 - return?
Dep Ely 9:30 (National Rail)
Arrive King's Cross 10:38
Dep King's Cross 10:45 (Taxi)
Arrive Paddington 11:00
Dep Paddington 11:10 (Heathrow Express)
Arrive London HR 11:25
Depart London HR 14:30pm
