Monday, July 2, 2012

Montana Trip, Day 3

Today is actually the beginning of day 4 in Montana but its only 6:30 in the morning so there is little to report about today. This kids did amazing flying out here. McKenna slept in mommy's lap the flight to Denver, or at least most of it. My arms and legs kept falling asleep so there was a lot of wiggling and moving. Apparently it is hard to hold a 26 lb 3 year old for over an hour. Keaton slept Denver to Helena. Hoping they will both sleep at least one of the legs home too, although when they werent sleeping they were content with the iPad so it all worked out. We have been able to hook Mickey up to her machine every night without problems so far but she is eating awful orally so that adds a ton of stress. I would actually say she is doing just okay, but daddy is very upset with how much she isn't eating as opposed to concentrating on quantity that she is, which than makes me feel like she is doing worse than she actually is. There is no doubt this is the biggest stress of the entire trip, McKenna not eating quantities daddy wants, and he is sure to bring it up every couple of hours, if not more. The other tricky part of the travel is schedules. Normally I am verrrry scheduled, but I am in montana for less than a week and havent been here for 4 years. My priority is family and spending time together and everyone being happy. Unfortunately, daddy is very upset if we are 20 minutes off which makes it difficult to do anything. The twins have basically an hour or two during the day tht they aren't eating or sleeping, so it makes if frustrating to not be able to be with family other times too. We stayed in a hotel, per daddy's request and it has been nice to have a clean place to sleep. He down side is my kids go to bed 7:30, which means I have to be back at hotel by 7 to get feeding tubes ready, pjs on, evening snacks, meds, etc. I am very disappointed in the way this trip has turned out, though I am not in the least bit surprised. Next time we come to Montana it will be much easier if it is just me and the kids! It's 7 am now. Debating waking kids so we can go eat breakfast before daddy gets back from his run and yells at us for not eating enough. Grumpy kids or grumpy dddy. Which is worse?

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