I'm the worst blogger EVA!

Hello blog readers, if there are any of even left out there! Clearly I suck at blogging, but I have good reason for being away for so long.

So, we went on our 1st family vacation to Croatia for pretty much all of August. It was a wonderful vacation. To be able to spend so much time with my family and to have Gabriella dotes on every moment was just more precious than I could ever put into words. I was super nervous about traveling with her so far, but she did great. Things would get a little hairy trying to fall asleep, but for the most part she was in that frazzled overtired state most of the time and there were WAY too many things to check out on the 3 planes we went on to get there. She was a total trooper though.

While we were there Gabriella became a full time walker. I was so excited that this got to happen in Croatia. She had no problems with the time change and became adapted to island lifestyle right away. The last week we were there she got sick and shit literally fell apart. Her sleep went to hell and then we got a trickle down effect from there. She was still in OK spirits most of the time, but man the tantrums and meltdowns were epic. As brokenhearted as I was to leave my family, who I know I won't see for 2 years, I was happy to get home and get Gabriella back into her element. We had to re-sleep train and it took about 4-5 days and now all is well again. She is still taking 2 naps, but her morning nap is only about 40-45 minutes and then she takes a 2 hour afternoon nap. She's also got one molar all the way broken through, one that's partial, and 2 (the bottom ones) that are about to emerge.

She's chatting up a storm and says words in both English and Croatian. Its super cute. I'm so glad that I almost exclusively speak to her in Croatian and that she was submerged in just that for 3 weeks. So, now an update on me...

About 5 days after we came back from Croatia I fainted in my bathroom and broke my right collar bone. I was sleeping on the couch and H woke me up to go to bed. I got up, went straight upstairs to take out my contacts, and as I was taking out my contacts I fainted. Woke up moments later on the floor with a broken clavicle. Passed out again momentarily trying to get up. We had to have an ambulance come and get me b/c I couldn't get off the floor. To make a long story short, there was nothing they could find in all their testing to attribute the fainting to. I'm very healthy and all my tests indicate that. They attributed it to getting up too suddenly from sleeping, being jetlagged, and exhaustion. I had surgery to repair my badly broken clavicle a week ago and am now in physical therapy. All in all, things are healing great. I am at home now on disability and will be for a few more weeks. I can pretty much use my right arm for anything except heavy lifting, which most importantly means that I can't pick Gabriella up for another 5 weeks. That is BY FAR the worst thing about this. I could deal with pain every day, but not being able to be a functioning mother to my own child is slowly killing me.

Oh yeah, and my MIL has to pick her up everyday at daycare b/c I can't. Rock on, this is so extremely fair and just. But alas, I can't do anything about it. Here's one pic of the munchkin on vacay. I promise to post an update next week after her 15 month appt and to post more pics later today!