Wings & Hotel

Last Saturday with Roger’s family they had a big wing and beer thing at the bar up by where IL’s grew up. Then afterwards a bunch of us go to the casino and use a bunch of the free rooms. We did this last year at this time too.

I wasn’t going to go to the wing part. I don’t really care for wings and I didn’t really want to deal with Bruce there. I did cave in and go. There was no Christmas party this year because of a big snowfall. I figured we’d go and some can meet Bruce. We thought since it was noon-4, it was ok to bring him. We figured it’d all work out perfect with naptimes too.  The bar is about 45 minutes away. He slept all the way. We were there for 2.5 hours I think. Then we drove to the casino which is about 1.5 hour drive. He napped the whole way. First though, I had given Bruce a bottle at the bar instead of feeding him myself. When we got to the casino I was SO eager to feed him. 5 hours without feeding, ouchie!

All was going well, we were in the party room and all. Then I decided to bring him back to our room to feed him. I figured maybe since things were going well that after I fed him, we could go to the pool. Things went downhill. I could NOT get him to feed. He was crying and crying. Then he seemed tired. I’d get him calmed down laughing even, then as soon as I’d have him in position to eat, scream. Of course my mom was there. That’s usually not a problem. I finally text Roger and told him to come back. When he did, my mom left. We tried waving an empty bottle for him to grab and he wouldn’t. Finally he did grab it and started sucking on it. So I ran to the bathroom and pumped. Luckily he took the bottle. Then shortly after that I fed him myself (not that he was getting anything but the comfort). I did get him to lay down.  I ended up going to the party room for just a little while. Right before I was to our door I could hear a baby (I’m actually not sure if it was mine, since there was another baby that we didn’t know around). He was up. He seemed too awake. My parents’ room was across the hall. So I went there, where they were and hung out. At midnight I went back to our room. Yes midnight! I got didn’t get him to fall asleep until 1. Roger said I could go gamble or go to the party room. I decided to change out of casual pants back into jeans. Right then Bruce was stirring, so I put the casual pants back on. I just new he wouldn’t stay asleep long. I’m the one who can calm him down when he’s at this state he’s in. Also I can whip out a boob if needed. I told Roger he could go. I decided to try to sleep myself. I’m glad I stayed. Bruce woke up at 1:45. Took a long time to get him back down. I just couldn’t lay him in the pack n play. He’d be asleep in my arms, but as soon as I motioned to lay him down, he’d cry.

Finally I got him to lay down in the bed. He was there awhile and I tried to transfer him to the pack n play and nope, started crying. I got him calm again and on the bed, so I just left him there. I put pillows all on one side of him and slept next to him. He woke up at 7 I think it was and I thought "Roger is still out?". No, he was in the other bed! oh well. 

 When we woke up, things were going good so we decided to hit the pool right away since it was open. My parents were leaving and I wanted to have my mom come watch. I knew she wanted to plus I could give her my camera. I was worried, the water was really cold. I figured as soon as he shiver, we’d come out. We were in there probably 20 minutes and he never shivered. He seemed to enjoy it. I want to go back!

I told Roger we need to go swimming, I don’t want to wait til June. I’ve even looked at our jacuzzi, that tube will fit in there. lol.

Sunday we stayed til Super Bowl half time. We hit up the crab buffet, yum! They wanted us to stay the night, since our room was two nights. We did that so we could use the pool that day, not have to rush to check out. There was no way I could handle another night like the night before. We went home, I was worried the carride nap would be bad for bedtime since we got home at 8pm. Bruce went down at 10 and woke up at 8:30am!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yay, we all needed that sleep. We had went to bed as soon as he did.