I keep saying that I'm going to get better at this updating business but I really haven't gotten any better. Once again, I will try to work on it =)
So a BUNCH has happened since that last blog. We took our trip to California in early September. It was JoJo's first time flying and he did an AWESOME job. I was so proud of him. I love flying and have flown many many times, but for some reason I was super nervous for this trip. The only reason I can think of is that it was because I was nervous about flying with the baby. I'm talkin I was nervous enough that the closer we got to the airport, the less I could talk because I felt like if I said something, I would puke lol. I had been having nightmares about missing our plane, having problems getting through security, being the mom on the plane with the screaming baby.. you name it, I drempt it.
So we got to the airport, got through security and I finally started to relax cause we had an hour and a half to kill and we were already through security so we were in the clear, right?? WRONG... We went to the gate that the reader board said we would be departing from and were sitting there.. it said our plane would start loading at 5:30, depart at 6. So at 5:20, I'm lookin around and there aren't many people sitting at this gate so I'm thinkin "heck yeah, it's gonna be a empty flight, lots of room, blah blah blah" WRONG AGAIN. Right then we here this "Flight 240 will now be boarding at gate C-14" You've got to be kidding me.. not only was it a different gate.. IT WAS ON A WHOLE DIFFERENT CONCOURSE!!!! WTF!!!! So here we are, already put the stroller in the flight bag that we bought (it's not a light stroller), luggage, a baby the whole 9 yards and we are tryin to haul ass to whole different section of the damn airport.
Well we made it to the gate but they had already started boarding so we missed the pre boarding to get all this junk on the plane. You woulda thought some passengers would have been like "oh gosh lets help these guys get on the plane" NOPE.. they just let us fiddle around trying to get our crap together. Well, everyone except the lady who offered to carry JoJo on board. ARE YOU EFFIN CRAZY LADY?!?! You think i'm just gonna hand my son over to some stranger to take on the plane? What kind of whack job are ya?
So we got on the plane and everything went fine. JoJo slept through the take off but woke up shortly after and was awake the rest of the flight. He was pretty content with going back and forth between mommy and daddy's lap and lookin out the window.
Our first day in Cali was pretty flippin adventurous. We got our rental car, we went and surprised Aaron's dad at his work, then we went to Matt's house (Aaron's Brother) and from Matt's house we got to go to the E.R.!! This is literally maybe 3 hours after landing in California and we're sittin in the E.R. We were getting ready to make JoJo a bottle at Matt's house and all of a sudden all this mucus started coming out his nose and mouth. It wasn't just a little bit, I'm talkin it was enough that he couldn't breathe because it was blocking his airways. I had him over the sink pounding on his back, freaking out then remembered there was a hospital at the end of Matt's road so we jumped in the car and rushed there. Turns out it was an Upper Respitory Infection and they think the plane ride with the circulated air dried out his sinuses and they were just clearing themselves. He was fine after that. Talk about scarin mama half to death.
So we left the hospital and went to have lunch with Matt, his girlfriend and his son. From there we went to the park just to hang out for a bit cause it had been about 3 years since Aaron had seen his brother. After the park we made our way to Aaron's friend's house, Julian. We hung there for a while and we all took off to Aaron's cousin's house for a bbq. This was all in the first day remember!! Busy eh??
The rest of the week we didn't slow down either, we spent one whole day at Huntington Beach.. Talk about BEAUTIFUL!! Nothin like sittin on the beach with your feet in the sand instead of pebbles lol. JoJo even got his feet wet in the Pacific Ocean. We took off on a road trip to Arizona to see Grandma and Grandpa. That was a long drive through a bunch of nothing. I gotta tell ya, I would never want to break down out there. They actually have signs that read "turn off air conditioning to avoid overheading" That was enough to scare me into not even using the cold air cause I didn't want the engine working any harder than it needed to. I turned everything off and opened the back windows some to get a breeze going and off we went. It was pretty warm but better than breakin down. the breeze actually made it not so bad. We spent the day/night with grandma and grandpa which was very nice cause I hardly get to see them. It was grandpa's first time meeting JoJo. Even though it was SUPER flippin hot in AZ and we were in a whole city of retiree's over the age of 55, I was sad to leave because I really dont get to see my grandparent's enough and wish they lived closer. The next day we went to breakfast with them and hit the road for the 5 hour drive back to California.
We got back to Cali.. made some more rounds to family. We took JoJo over to Aunt Mae and Uncle Dock's House. Aunt Mae is kinda the "matriarch" of some sort for the family. She is 88 and Uncle Dock is 93 and we feel blessed that we got to take JoJo down there to introduce them. We spent quite a bit of time with Aaron's dad down there too, it was so awesome to see the 3 hang out together.
Thursday we were going to head to L.A for the day and check out places like Hollywood Blvd, Rodeo Drive, ect.. but at about 1:30 in the morning JoJo woke up and he was between Aaron and I and he was roasting hot. This little boy had a major temperature. I ended up getting up and going to the drug store down the street that was open 24 hours to buy some baby tylanol and a thermometer. I took his temp under the arm which read 101.7, gave him some tylanol, called my mom to see what i should do. We decided to wait until morning to see if his temp went down, but at 8 am, he was at 102* rectally so we decided to take him back to the ER. Yup, you heard me... E.R trip #2. They weren't much help. They said that it's all apart of his "upper respitory infection" (which he had no symptoms of from saturday after the mucus until now) and to just keep giving him the tylanol and keep in out of the sun. We ended up spending all of Thursday in the hotel room with the AC on to keep him cool and try to break his fever. Friday his temp finally came down to a manageable 99* but I had to keep up on the tylanol. We went to L.A and did our sight seein since he was feeling a little bit better. We had a great time out there too. I was really hoping to run into someone famous but of course we didn't lol. JoJo almost could have been on TV though!!!!!! Some people for the Jimmy Kimmel Show were outside of a venue and saw JoJo and said "oh my gosh your baby is so cute, does he say daddy at all because if he does we can put him on a skit".. unfortunatly JoJo doesn't talk yet so we had to pass but how flippin cool would that have been???
So our trip came to an end on Saturday and we flew back home and actually we were very happy to be home. It takes a vacation sometimes to really make you appreciate "home". We were tired and had a great time and can't wait to do it again next year. Unfortunatly now that we are home, JoJo got both mom and I sick lol. I think we all 3 have the flu.. well JoJo is pretty much over it, mom is getting there and I'll be back up to par probably in a couple of days. Aaron has some sort of superman immune system because he hasn't gotten sick at all.
Hows that for a blog?? Hope I didn't lose ya since it's kinda long.... Here are some pictures of our trip!! Enjoy!!!
So a BUNCH has happened since that last blog. We took our trip to California in early September. It was JoJo's first time flying and he did an AWESOME job. I was so proud of him. I love flying and have flown many many times, but for some reason I was super nervous for this trip. The only reason I can think of is that it was because I was nervous about flying with the baby. I'm talkin I was nervous enough that the closer we got to the airport, the less I could talk because I felt like if I said something, I would puke lol. I had been having nightmares about missing our plane, having problems getting through security, being the mom on the plane with the screaming baby.. you name it, I drempt it.
So we got to the airport, got through security and I finally started to relax cause we had an hour and a half to kill and we were already through security so we were in the clear, right?? WRONG... We went to the gate that the reader board said we would be departing from and were sitting there.. it said our plane would start loading at 5:30, depart at 6. So at 5:20, I'm lookin around and there aren't many people sitting at this gate so I'm thinkin "heck yeah, it's gonna be a empty flight, lots of room, blah blah blah" WRONG AGAIN. Right then we here this "Flight 240 will now be boarding at gate C-14" You've got to be kidding me.. not only was it a different gate.. IT WAS ON A WHOLE DIFFERENT CONCOURSE!!!! WTF!!!! So here we are, already put the stroller in the flight bag that we bought (it's not a light stroller), luggage, a baby the whole 9 yards and we are tryin to haul ass to whole different section of the damn airport.
Well we made it to the gate but they had already started boarding so we missed the pre boarding to get all this junk on the plane. You woulda thought some passengers would have been like "oh gosh lets help these guys get on the plane" NOPE.. they just let us fiddle around trying to get our crap together. Well, everyone except the lady who offered to carry JoJo on board. ARE YOU EFFIN CRAZY LADY?!?! You think i'm just gonna hand my son over to some stranger to take on the plane? What kind of whack job are ya?
So we got on the plane and everything went fine. JoJo slept through the take off but woke up shortly after and was awake the rest of the flight. He was pretty content with going back and forth between mommy and daddy's lap and lookin out the window.
Our first day in Cali was pretty flippin adventurous. We got our rental car, we went and surprised Aaron's dad at his work, then we went to Matt's house (Aaron's Brother) and from Matt's house we got to go to the E.R.!! This is literally maybe 3 hours after landing in California and we're sittin in the E.R. We were getting ready to make JoJo a bottle at Matt's house and all of a sudden all this mucus started coming out his nose and mouth. It wasn't just a little bit, I'm talkin it was enough that he couldn't breathe because it was blocking his airways. I had him over the sink pounding on his back, freaking out then remembered there was a hospital at the end of Matt's road so we jumped in the car and rushed there. Turns out it was an Upper Respitory Infection and they think the plane ride with the circulated air dried out his sinuses and they were just clearing themselves. He was fine after that. Talk about scarin mama half to death.
So we left the hospital and went to have lunch with Matt, his girlfriend and his son. From there we went to the park just to hang out for a bit cause it had been about 3 years since Aaron had seen his brother. After the park we made our way to Aaron's friend's house, Julian. We hung there for a while and we all took off to Aaron's cousin's house for a bbq. This was all in the first day remember!! Busy eh??
The rest of the week we didn't slow down either, we spent one whole day at Huntington Beach.. Talk about BEAUTIFUL!! Nothin like sittin on the beach with your feet in the sand instead of pebbles lol. JoJo even got his feet wet in the Pacific Ocean. We took off on a road trip to Arizona to see Grandma and Grandpa. That was a long drive through a bunch of nothing. I gotta tell ya, I would never want to break down out there. They actually have signs that read "turn off air conditioning to avoid overheading" That was enough to scare me into not even using the cold air cause I didn't want the engine working any harder than it needed to. I turned everything off and opened the back windows some to get a breeze going and off we went. It was pretty warm but better than breakin down. the breeze actually made it not so bad. We spent the day/night with grandma and grandpa which was very nice cause I hardly get to see them. It was grandpa's first time meeting JoJo. Even though it was SUPER flippin hot in AZ and we were in a whole city of retiree's over the age of 55, I was sad to leave because I really dont get to see my grandparent's enough and wish they lived closer. The next day we went to breakfast with them and hit the road for the 5 hour drive back to California.
We got back to Cali.. made some more rounds to family. We took JoJo over to Aunt Mae and Uncle Dock's House. Aunt Mae is kinda the "matriarch" of some sort for the family. She is 88 and Uncle Dock is 93 and we feel blessed that we got to take JoJo down there to introduce them. We spent quite a bit of time with Aaron's dad down there too, it was so awesome to see the 3 hang out together.
Thursday we were going to head to L.A for the day and check out places like Hollywood Blvd, Rodeo Drive, ect.. but at about 1:30 in the morning JoJo woke up and he was between Aaron and I and he was roasting hot. This little boy had a major temperature. I ended up getting up and going to the drug store down the street that was open 24 hours to buy some baby tylanol and a thermometer. I took his temp under the arm which read 101.7, gave him some tylanol, called my mom to see what i should do. We decided to wait until morning to see if his temp went down, but at 8 am, he was at 102* rectally so we decided to take him back to the ER. Yup, you heard me... E.R trip #2. They weren't much help. They said that it's all apart of his "upper respitory infection" (which he had no symptoms of from saturday after the mucus until now) and to just keep giving him the tylanol and keep in out of the sun. We ended up spending all of Thursday in the hotel room with the AC on to keep him cool and try to break his fever. Friday his temp finally came down to a manageable 99* but I had to keep up on the tylanol. We went to L.A and did our sight seein since he was feeling a little bit better. We had a great time out there too. I was really hoping to run into someone famous but of course we didn't lol. JoJo almost could have been on TV though!!!!!! Some people for the Jimmy Kimmel Show were outside of a venue and saw JoJo and said "oh my gosh your baby is so cute, does he say daddy at all because if he does we can put him on a skit".. unfortunatly JoJo doesn't talk yet so we had to pass but how flippin cool would that have been???
So our trip came to an end on Saturday and we flew back home and actually we were very happy to be home. It takes a vacation sometimes to really make you appreciate "home". We were tired and had a great time and can't wait to do it again next year. Unfortunatly now that we are home, JoJo got both mom and I sick lol. I think we all 3 have the flu.. well JoJo is pretty much over it, mom is getting there and I'll be back up to par probably in a couple of days. Aaron has some sort of superman immune system because he hasn't gotten sick at all.
Hows that for a blog?? Hope I didn't lose ya since it's kinda long.... Here are some pictures of our trip!! Enjoy!!!
KAT VON DI'S TATTOO SHOP FROM THE SHOW L.A. INK
WOODY.. MAMA.. AND JOJO
JOJO AS A BIG MAN LOL
SO I KINDA RAN INTO SOMEONE FAMOUS.. HE HAPPENED TO BE WAX THOUGH LOL
JOJO AT THE COLLEGE HANG OUT SPOT PLAYIN POOL
TAKE A LOOK AT THOSE FACES.. CAN'T SAY JOJO ISN'T A "YOUNG"
3 GENERATIONS OF "YOUNG"
LONG DAY AT THE BEACH WORE JOJO OUT
BEAUTIFUL IS ALL I CAN SAY.. IF I COULD AFFORD TO LIVE ON THE BEACH AND DO THIS DAILY, I'D BE IN CALI IN A HEARTBEAT.. UNFORTUNATLY I DONT MAKE MILLIONS LOL
JOJO GETTIN HIS TOES WET IN THE PACIFIC
TRYIN REAL HARD TO GET THE PEPSI (IT'S NOT OPENED, DONT WORRY)
ME, AARON, JOJO, GRANDMA AND GRANDPA
JOJO WITH UNCLE DOCK
JOJO WITH AUNT MAE
WHEN WE LANDED AT LAX
AARON, COUSIN NICKI, JOJO AND COUSIN DAVEY
MATT, RICHARD, JOJO AND AARON
FAMILY PHOTO ON THE BEACH
JOJO HAVIN FUN IN THE SAND
