Week 2 in Chicago

Okay can I just say that the last couple of days have been rough. We got off to a smashing start here in the Windy City but the last three days have been.... not sure the right words to sum it up. I guess interesting, stressful, and can you say hibbie jibbies!! First of all Lula tripped and fell into the corner of a marble planter box in the lobby of the hotel and off to the ER we went. Needless to say we returned home 6 hours later exhausted and about 15 stitches in Lu's ear by a plastic surgeon. She is fine but what a whirl wind!! She was so upset and I managed to not cry until she was on the sleepy juice. She is now doing great and expected a full recovery. Yeah and Praise GOD!!!
So we were all still recouping from that ordeal when Anthony noticed just a few bug bites on him the following day. He just thought maybe from being outside...think again! I am a huge fan of Embassy Suites but this one has not lived up to our expectations as well as the others and now there were BED BUGS in our room and eating on us in the middle of the night. Can I just add that no amount of hot water, changing rooms, and having all of our belongs laundered will give me a piece of mind. The hotel staff tells us this is their "first incident" yeah right but they did move us and have been very generous with us to correct the situation. Thankfully the girls and I did not get one bite on us...but poor Anthony suffered pretty bad with well over a hundred bites on his body, even on his eyelid. He is itchy and miserable, poor thing. Not sure why they liked him and no us girls but I still can not stop being itchy and having the hibbie jibbies! On top of it all Anthony lost his cell phone in a cab during all the chaos and had to disconnect the service to the phone. So the last few days have been interesting and the entire hotel staff knows the family really well with Lu getting hurt and then the bed bug incident. I do hope the next few days will be incident free and let me just add that we still feel so blessed and things could always be so much worse. =) It was a weird Birthday for me but tomorrow Anthony is taking the girls and I am going shopping by myself and really looking forward to it because of all the many stores on the Magnificant Mile. Here are a couple of pics of Lu in the hospital.

Lula with Polar Bear with a hurt ear too! It was sweet because they told her that when she goes to sleep they will fix polar bears' ear as well.

Lula playing doctor!

Lula still feeling the effects of the drugs and not sure what Phoebe is doing in the picture, I think she is attempting to smile.

The last few days have not been a total bust because we did go to the Lincoln park Zoo, watched the Air show, fireworks, and live music complete with dancing in the streets. I will post those pictures very soon. Until then.....