Trip to Grandpa and Grandma's in Anaheim!

We had promised to go visit Grandpa and Grandma in Anaheim right at the first of the New Year, but various illnesses have kept us from following through. We finally got a weekend where everyone was healthy (well, so we thought), found out Dick and Janice were going to be home, and decided to go for it. At the very least, we hoped it would give us an idea of how Cam might travel on our trip to Kauai in a few weeks.

Cam did GREAT in the car. He only took a 35 minute nap, but luckily we had brought the dvd player from Evelyn, played a couple of Mr. Rogers dvds for him and before we knew it (and before any major meltdowns!) we were in Anaheim! The drive was about 4 hours, and the last time we made it Cam was napping a LOT more. We're thinking that the new bigger carseat (Britax Marathon, worth the $$$) and turning the carseat around a couple of months ago have made a HUGE difference.

Cam adjusted to the new environment and didn't torture Patches (he loves to chase Grams cat, Bonnie). He'd had a little cough and runny nose for a while but it seemed to kick into overdrive once we got to Anaheim. He slept ok overnight and took an ok nap, but definitely was off. On Sunday morning after breakfast, we all bundled up and went to play at the park a few blocks away - lots of swings, slides and rides. We all had fun and Cam burned a bit of energy off, always a good thing.

Probably the highlight of our trip was the Kevin and I got to go shopping - just the two of us - for the upcoming wedding. Grandpa and Grandma offered to babysit, and since Cam had been having so much fun, we decided to see how it went. They all had a great time and no one had any meltdowns :) It was a short visit to a nearby mall, but it marked the first time Cam's been babysit - ever. We'll see about finding a local babysitter and maybe mommy and daddy will go out to dinner together sometime soon :)

We had a great time visiting with Grandpa and Grandma! Thank you for having us down and we can't wait to do it again!

ps
we'll ask Grandma about sending us some of the photos they took while we visited - we traveled light and didn't bring our camera for the trip. We won't do that again - we missed too many Kodak moments.