Over the river and through the woods....

This morning Jim dropped Nita off at the kennel and we made our trip into Long Island to visit with Jodi & Jim's Grandma. Surprisingly, we made pretty good time...we even had no traffic on the Cross Bronx Parking Lot....until I couldn't read my own directions! Luckily, we figured it out pretty quickly.

We went to Jodi's first and everyone was already there....Jim's parents, Michelle, Laura & Amanda. We exchanged Christmas gifts and got to see Jocelyn! She is such a beautiful baby.

We stayed at Jodi's for a bit and then went to vist Jim's Grandma. They live 2 miles away from eachother.

We got to Grandma's and immediately went to Red Lobster. We all had a great meal...until Grandma started to not feel well. This ended up in a race back to her house...in rush hour traffic.

While we were trying to get Grandma out of the restaurant, we brought the girls up to see the lobsters. One wonderful server actually took one out and let the girls touch it and see it. It was a really nice gesture.

Once we got back to Grandma's...we tried to talk her into going to the hospital, but she refused. So after about 2 hours, we all (Jim's parents, Michelle, Laura, Jim, the kids & I) went back to the hotel.

We went to go for a swim in the pool. All of a sudden, Emily loved the water! She hated it last time we were in a pool. It was Jimmy's first time in a pool. He cried for a little bit, but then he settled into the water and did pretty good.

Then it happened......

The front desk girl came into the pool area with a note for Jim's dad. Grandma wanted to go to the hospital. Unfortunately, it was late at night, icy and we were all tired. Plus, if it was a virus, we didn't want the kids to catch it. We kept getting updates on tests she was having done and we found out it wasn't a virus. We decided that we would take a trip to the hospital in the morning before we left.

We all settled in for bed. Thankfully, we had an adjoining room with Michelle & Laura. Why? Well, Jimmy picked this moment to start crying, screaming, wailing, etc... No matter what we did, we couldn't calm him. Michelle ran to her car for some Tylenol. Jim finally went out for some Mylicon drops....and got a little lost! Finally, Michelle was able to get him to sleep. I took him from her so she could get to bed and when Jim came back we put him in the pack-n-play.

We got up in the morning, had breakfast and headed out to the hospital. It was nice to see Grandma before we left.

Overall it was a pretty eventful trip!