Trip to Sequoia National Park

Thanks for Twins Mom, she forwarded us this special deal of a lodge at Sequoia National Park in Jan, so we booked the trip and we had been telling Natalie that we would take her to play snow, play with EA and other kids. Natalie was looking forward to it.

Before we headed to Sequoia National Park, I was worried about the long car ride. Before this trip, the longest ride that Natalie had been in was about an hour when we went to the Lei's. So, we decided to take a day off and drove during the day, so that we could take a couple breaks.

We left at around 9:45 am on March 13. When we were leaving, we found that Natalie had a low fever at 99 F. I quickly threw the Infant Tylenol in our bag and hoping that we wouldn't need it. Natalie was pretty good during the car ride, she was napping soon after we started driving until we took our lunch break at Merced (almost 2 hours). After lunch, we checked her temperature, her fever went up to 103F! So we gave her a dose of Tylenol. I asked Kin if we should drive back home and cancelled the trip, but Kin said Natalie had been looking forward to play snow, he didn't want to let her down. Therefore, we continued driving. When we reached the destination, it was about 5 pm.

The next morning (Saturday), Natalie didn't have a fever. We took her to the snow playground after breakfast with Alan, Emmett and Aidan. She had fun sledding for the first 0.5 hours.

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However, she then didn't want to sled anymore and she didn't want to play snow neither. We sat there for about 10 minutes, then I asked her if she wanted to leave. She said "Yes", so we just went back to the hotel room and waited to get lunch. After her afternoon nap, her fever was back at 100F, and Natalie didn't feel like going outside. Therefore, we just stayed in our room and I watched Blue's Clues with her.

It's too bad that Natalie did not feel well most of the time during the trip. I think she would have enjoyed the snow more and would have enjoyed hanging out with other kids if she were not sick. I am looking forward to our next trip with other families :)

終於等到喇

終於等到這一天喇﹗ 等什麼﹖ It's Natalie finally does not cry when we drop her off at daycare! It does not happen just once in a blue moon, she has been good for 2 weeks now! I think it is finally over! She won't cry anymore ! In the past 2 weeks, in the morning, I walk into the classroom with her, put her stuff in the cubby, then I tell her:

"媽咪去返工喇。乖乖地喇。"

. She just says, "好呀。"

Then, we say GoodBye to each other. Both Kin and I are so glad that she finally accepts that she needs to stay at school without us. Although she still tells me that she does not want to go to school in the mornings and tries to hide in the tent sometimes when we are about to leave home, she still cooperates when I tell her that she has to go to school for the day because mommy and daddy have work.

這少少的進步已令我很安慰啊。