On the way there, there was really only one moment of Jake crying uncontrollably because he was tired of being in the carseat (the rest were hunger related which were quickly fixed), and even then pulling out the ipad and putting on tangled proved just the proper amount of distraction to calm him down. I'm not sure how I feel about the fact that my 4 month old is already enjoying movies (secretly love it but I know I have to be a responsible parent and should try to limit his exposure early on). The rest of the trip he was pretty good and if one of us sat in the back with him he was really good. I have to say our lil mirror was a life saver this trip and I've left it up cause I enjoy checking out his cute lil face as we drive around doing errands.
We were able to make it to utah faster than our drive home cause we brought pumped milk so we wouldn't have to stop every feeding-it proved really helpful.
We pulled in to cortez just a short ways from monticello where cody's grandparents live for some dinner...and jake didn't want to miss out:
We spent the next few days in Monticello, Utah-a really fun small town where EVERYONE knows cody's grandparents. It was pretty chilly to us but we survived and at least there wasn't any snow on the ground (the roads around there aren't taken care of that well). Jake was a lil fussy while we were there-prolly just aftershock from all the traveling but he eventually made it back to his usual chill personality, and at least he was great at church on sunday.
playing games with the slades:
One thing I've learned is that it is impossible to take a good pic of everyone
While we were in Monticello I re-learned that God is aware of each of us and without us even knowing can use us to help one another answer each others' prayers-I love re-discovering this fact over and over. So we were walking into their church building and Grandma Slade discovered a little knitted bootie that looked like a blessing outfit item on the ground. It was half frozen but she brought it inside and put it on an easel outside the chapel to dry etc. I didn't think anything more of it and we went to sac meeting and the rest of our meetings. In between sunday school and RS I went to feed Jake in the mothers lounge. After a few minutes a sister came in from a different ward. We chatted and got to know each other and somehow in the course of our conversation it came out that her lil baby was blessed a week ago, and then she totally asked me if I saw a bootie wedged in the side of the rocking chair I was sitting in etc cause she had lost one of her baby's last week. Apparently they were really special booties that her husband had brought back from South america where he had served a mission or something and every child in their family had been blessed in them but she had lost one of them last week. Needless to say I was very excited to show her where we had found it. She was so happy and relieved. There's no way that it was just a big coincidence-so many things could have happened just slightly differently to where I wouldn't have seen the bootie or wouldn't have met her-what if Jake had gotten hungry sooner? or later? etc, but no, it was totally Heavenly Father answering a mother's prayer-just love that I could help!
To Be Continued...
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