Fishies, Leggings, Tears & Oreos

Boy did we just have an interesting weekend. We have been planning for a few months now to go to Chicago with my family and we were all very excited to go. Unfortunately, the weather decided not to cooperate so we headed into the "Windy City" on an extra cold and windy day. The first item on the agenda was a trip to the Shedd Aquarium. As we were walking up we couldn't believe the long line of people to get in I mean I knew the aquarium was popular but I couldn't believe it was that long. So, we decided to wait and over an hour later we finally got in the building. The first order of business when we got inside was to get a fresh diaper on Elle and this is when I got to have my first freak out moment as a mother. As I took off her diaper I saw it....a rash covering her from the top of her head down to the top of her legs. Oh my gosh what is wrong....I had no idea she hadn't been sick and all she gets is breastmilk and cereal so it couldn't be an allergy but then what was it. Well I started to panic and I sent my mom to get my sister (she's a nurse) and then I speed dialed the pediatrician. Well within about 15 minutes we had our answer. Elle had Rosiola which apparently is very common in babies but someone forgot to mention this to me haha if they had maybe it could of prevented the scene I made in the Shedd Aquarium bathroom. Anyway after this first tramatic event we finally got to enjoy the fishies and boy did Elle love every minute of it. I felt horrible every time we had to walk away from one of the tanks because Elle would stretch and twist to try and keep looking. Now my mom is telling me that we need to get Elle some fish........um I doubt it. Elle did convince her Daddy to buy her a cute little penguin and book from the gift shop though.

After the aquarium we headed to our hotel which was right off Michigan Avenue and it was definitely a great place to stay. We spent the rest of the evening going out for dinner and at an awesome restaurant and hanging out with the family back at our hotel. Elle loved looking out our windows at all the lights about as much as she loved the aquarium.

Sunday morning we woke up to a snow storm which was a bit disappointing considering we were all supposed to watch my mom and sister run the Shamrock Shuffle. Instead Robby stayed in the hotel and watched the race from our room while the rest of us tried to find Mom and Chels in the sea of 15,000 people.

On our way home we stopped at a Portillo's yummy. This is where every started laughing and when I looked at Elle to see why I discovered she was licking the table......not funny people come on. Oh well I guess a few germs never hurt anyone and Robby tried to assure me that the gray water they wash the tables with probably gets them pretty clean.

These are both views from our hotel. Robby and I were lucky enough to get a corner room so that meant twice the windows it was pretty great.

This was a Sea Dragon....our favorite thing at the aquarium.

Elle had to show off her new leg warmers I found for her...they are so darn cute!

Elle is 6 months old now and I still can't believe how fast she is growing. I tried to capture pictures of her first tear the other day. Unfortunatley it's hard to see the tear but the pictures sure turned out good.

Now that Elle is 6 months she is starting a few new foods. So far she has only had sweet potatoes and cereal but in a few days she is going to try peas. It seems now that she is starting to eat a few things she's really interested in food espcially anything I'm eating. Well today I was having a few oreos and Elle just begged me to hold one. Of course, it ended up in her mouth but only long enough for me to snap a few pictures.