Maryville Adventure

So here I am grandsitting my 82 year old grandparents. Today was day one. We didn't do a whole lot. They have a routine that they follow pretty well. They prepare their breakfast and then go for a walk around the neighborhood. Then, they watch TV or grandma cleans until lunch. Then they go back to TV watching or grandma cleaning... you get the pattern. Anyway, I changed the routine today. They did prepare themselves breakfast and took their walk, but then Sofia wanted to go to the "pool". We filled the yakuzi and Abuela Acracia had a great time supervising that everything was safe for her. Abuela Acracia is super great-grandma and is paranoid about everything Sofia could do to herself. She means well, but this drives Sofia crazy.


Then, for lunch I took them to a Chinese Buffet. My grandfather is a big fan of these and takes full advantage of all you can eat. He usually makes a pretty good combination of things for his last plate, and I like to take a picture. Here is today's special: fried calamari, fried shrimp, pork eggroll, chocolate ice cream and vainilla ice cream. Yum!


Having a great time, we miss Vince a lot... but appearantly he's working on a surprise. Although, Sofia already spoiled it. He's painting the back porch. Thanks Papi!!!

Wrigley Field up Close

Here are some pics from our tour of Wrigley Field on Monday. It was pretty cool to see the Locker Room and sit in the dugout. I could of stayed there all day, but we had to get back to Peoria for our softball game and get Louie. Enjoy!!!

We're back!!!

Hello everyone! Our adventure in Disney World was amazing. I am currently ordering about 700 pictures from our trip and I will make the ultimate scrapbook. Below I have included almost all the characters that Sofia met on our trip. Hope you enjoy all them. She was so happy!

day #2- wow

First, we would both like to say that Sofia Iadipaolo is the best 3 year old traveler EVER. She has been WONDERFUL to say the least. We left at 6am this morning and got here at 4:45pm and she did great. We sang, watched two movies, made a foam necklace, and guessed cloud shapes. She did great. The car... well let's just begin with our day.

We left Maryville early and drove until we got to breakfast at McD's two hours later. Then we saw a big sign that said we could see a Giant Statue of Superman in Metropolis, IL. We just HAD to stop. It was a pretty cool town and Superman Days or something like that is June 11 to the 14. What a great little town. They have a museum and an awesome store.

Then as we were pulling into Nashville, I (Sandra) was driving and noticed that I was pretty much fighting with the car to slow down. Appearantly something malfunctioned with the Idle switch and it would not stop accelerating. SCARY!!! We got off the interstate and there was a shell station with a service garage. We got the part, got it fixed. wow. Luckily there was La Taqueria San Juan on the corner and I bought some tacos, quesadilla, and a pupusa from Lupe to get us through lunch. A picture of us eating, yes, on the trunk of our car cuz there was NO place to sit. ha ha ha.

Then we finally arrived in Kennesaw, Georgia. What a great clean town this is. Vince and Sofia took some time to go to the pool so I could download some pictures onto the computer and figure out this whole wireless internet stuff.

Then, it was finally dinner time and we found a restaurant... My cousin Vinny's (a pizzeria). The pizza was amazing. We got the All The Way, it had pepperoni, sausage, beef, green peppers, mushrooms, black olives, onions, ham, and more I'm sure. Delicious!!!

So, now we are back in our room just chilling. Vince and Sofia are watching Finding Nemo since it's on, but mostly Sofia keeps jumping on the bed and laughing. We're having a great time. Earlier when the car "broke down" I could have just walked home, but Vince quickly redirected me in the fact that Sofia was doing great and that Sandra wasn't going to start bringing the mood down. He was right and we laughed for a while. Sofia has been great and "the princesses" have been leaving gifts when she is good so she has gotten lots of cool stuff.

Yall come back and read tomorrow's, you hear?

First leg of the trip- check!

Hi Yall!

We are currently in Maryville, IL home of the greatest frozen custard, and The Avendano's (Sandra's parents). We left Peoria around 3 and arrived around 6ish. Sofia had to stop twice and on the first stop we just HAD to get a McDee's Ice Tea (We love you Uncle Joe!).

We are having supper here. My mom made pork loin, rice, black beans, and is currently making arepas (a Venezuelan cuisine). YUMMY! Then we went to Bobby's...


We shall post again tomorrow night when we arrive in Atlanta.

Until then, LET'S GO ROAD TRIP (clap clap clap clap clap)

ShamWow

Wow-

Vince and Sofia greeted me with one of the greatest "end of the school year" gifts. The ShamWow. We began experimenting it's power. We must have said Wow a million times. How fun! It's pretty good and it does dry very well. We shall continue drying and witness it's incredible force.

WOW!

Sofia's trip to the Emergency Room

Wednesday night was not the greatest girls' night Sofia and I have had. It was just Sofia and I hanging out. We were going to do Snow White make-up on her for fun and I had to go downstairs to get some of the make-up I needed. I was down stairs and she decided to come join me while I was looking in the armoire.

She fell from the top of the stairs all the way down. I quickly checked from her toes up to her head and didn't move her. She had a huge bump on her head and was crying. I immediately called 911. The ambulance ride was very scary (mostly for me), but Sofia told the paramedic everything that happened to her. I was downstairs getting some of our face painting makeup and she was coming down to be with me (which she often does). She dropped a feather she had in her hand and bent down to pick it up and lost her balance. She told the paramedic this on our way to the hospital. All I saw from my angle was her hitting her head on the last step and her little body flipping over to hit the ground. She never once blacked out. At the ER, she had a CAT scan and xrays of her head, neck, and spine. There were NO fractures and the CAT scan came negative, she's mostly sore and still has her bump on her head. We kept her overnight there just in case. Sofia has suffered a concussion, but one couldn't tell with her high energy and all her laughing. The nurses at the Children's Hospital were wonderful to us and she was taken care of by the greatest staff. She is doing just fine. She was even playing outside when we got home from the hospital yesterday. We're so thankful!!

Here are some pics we took at the hospital... The top one is of her on the stretcher wearing her neck brace. She told the nurse that she wants to be Dr. Iadipaolo. The second one is of her in her room having a great lunch: mini raviolis, peas, apple juice, fruit and cheese plate, and some of Vince's ice cream. She's doing fine and is still looking forward to going to Disney in a week!