Lessons Learned On Our First Family Vacation
- When you time naps to your flight time, your plane will inevitably be delayed
- A baby in a carseat in the seat behind you means you cannot recline your seat. Choose your seat wisely.
- While the changing table feature on a plane is a nice thought, it's a bit scary for both baby and parent ... and likely meant for smaller babies.
- Everyone traveling to Arizona, from Arizona, or living in Arizona has a granddaughter or grandson that is about Brooke's age (or was about Brooke's age at one point)
- When you snicker and whisper about the baby crying in the seat behind you, the baby's parents can hear you and know what you are talking about.
- Changing a diaper blowout on the backseat of a car in a dimly lit parking garage is tricky (and messy)
- "Little Swimmers" diapers are not enough to prevent you from getting soaked when the baby your are holding decides to go
- Telling a 6 month old baby to "shush" or be quiet is a waste of time and energy
- When your baby falls asleep in the shade, the sun will move and take away that shade while you try to build a worthless shelter to keep baby protected
- While sunglasses do not stay on long enough to protect the eyes from the sun, they do make an excellent teething toy.
- Brooke is sensitive and/or allergic to the heat, the sun, sunscreen, chlorine, bananas, or some combination if the above. Since they were all introduced at about the same time, the source of the all-over-body rash is unknown.
- Travelling with a baby means you need to bring a lot of stuff, and still carry your baby while you also carry all of that stuff.
- If you dont want to have to get up when the sun comes up, remember to close the curtains in your hotel room before you go to sleep to try to throw the early-bird off a bit
- By the time you eat breakfast, get swimsuits on, lather up with sunscreen, and get down to the pool ... it will almost be time for baby's nap
- There isnt a whole lot to do in a hotel room with a 6-month-baby. Especially when that hotel room doesnt even have the cartoon network.
