More Chicago Pics

The girls watching the Air Show from the Beach.
Lula dancing in the street to a live band playing. What a sweet picture!
Phoebe copying her big sis and dancing too!

....and of course dancing with daddy!

Eating at the Cheesecake Factory...yummy!

Watching Fireworks on the Navy Pier.
Sitting with Daddy anticipating the fireworks show.

Pic of the parents....who are those adults with kids??

Stopping by the Hershey Shop to smell the yummy candy and just look at it of course. =) The kids did get to sample a new Hershey kiss.

We visited the Lincoln Park Zoo and the animals were a little nervous because of the all the Air Show activity that weekend, but very nice zoo and it was free!

We still had the key to our old bug invested room and we were shocked to see what they had done to the room.. we took a picture because it was such a mess. We went back to look for a bag were I had purchased something, no such luck. Oh well.

Here we are eating at a great local place called the Regale Beagle, it is a 70's & 80's type place. Played great music and the girls first time eating Chocolate Fondue.

So we are getting close to packing up and heading home. Tomorrow I am taking the girls to the Navy Pier one last time and to try some of Garrett's Popcorn. Some of the locals tell us it is just as much as a Chicago thing as deep dish. So we will try it out and let you know. Besides the last several days we have a great time here in the Windy City but no place like home.

BTW...Lu is doing great and does not complain about her ear except that it itches occasionally. It is looking and healing wonderfully. We will do a follow up with her pediatrician when we return home.
Also wanted to ask to pray for the renters in Anthony's dads house....they have four children including a set of twins. One of the twins was diagnosed today with Cerebral Palsy at the very young age of about 7 months old and will be in a wheel chair when she gets older. Please pray for this family.

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.....

First Week in Chicago

I just love this picture of the girls riding the Ferris Wheel on The Navy Pier in Chicago. We are having a blast our first week here but are very tired. I was lucky enough to have Auntie Brittany join us for the week and she has been a fabulous help with the girls. Seriously it was like I had a live in Nanny.....I want one for my Birthday. =) She sadly had to leave but we enjoyed here company and this was her first time to Chicago.

Since we have been here we have explored many wonderful aspects of this great city. The Navy Pier, Deep Dish Pizza, The Field Museum, Wrigely Field, Millenium Park, The beachs, Sears Tower (now called Willis Tower), and so much more. The flight here was pretty good and it was Phoebe's first time on an airplane. We are having a blast and look forward to what the next week will bring.

The video is a little long but cute!

There are so many pictures to choose from but here are some that made the cut. ENJOY!!