Day 18: Vacation!!

As I type this tonight, I am sitting in a lovely condo watching "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" with my family. We have already taken a dip in the pool and the ocean. We also celebrated my birthday tonight! Yes, I am 29 now! Yikes! My mom picked up a delicious GF-CF cake from Truly Free bakery. It was so yummy and so wonderful to eat chocolate cake!!

The car ride was rather uneventful which is good considering we usually have horrible car rides to the beach. I think that was a birthday gift from my sons: good behavior in the car. I packed a picnic lunch and we ate at the Florida rest stop. I used the leftover chicken that I bought for dinner last night and made wraps with rice tortillas, lettuce, tomato, and guacamole! We also had an assortment of chips and fruit. I found some GF-CF animal cookies and me and Daniel had a few of those for dessert. He, of course, had a PB and J sandwich : )

For dinner tonight, and as a birthday treat, we had T-Bone steak, London Broil, roasted potatoes, and green beans. The condo we are staying at did not have any steak sauces that were Gf-CF so we made our own with ketchup and Lea and Perrins Worcestershire sauce (the only GF one).

On a side note, while eating baby carrots, I picked my son Simon up to put him in his high chair and he started choking on the carrot. He was obviously having trouble breathing, but could still cough and was screaming and crying while coughing and gagging. We tried back blows, Heimlic, everything, but nothing worked. I told my husband to grab the keys and we were going to drive to the ER. Once I got downstairs (we were on the 14th floor) I realized he could breathe and cough so I should let him just get it out himself. But it had been more than 5 minutes at this point. Finally we got in the car. We couldn't find the keys to our van, so we had my mom's car to drive. I sat in the back with Simon on my lap. He just kept coughing while Sam drove, and once we had driven for about 5 minutes, he finally coughed out that dang carrot and promptly fell asleep. I will say that his life flashed before my eyes and I have never been so worried in my life. Poor little guy is sleeping peacefully now, but just remember to always be careful with little ones and food.