After a last minute plan to visit my family, a long week of a crying toddler - refusing food, sleep, and pacifiers - a Hand Foot Mouth Virus scare at preschool, and two visits to the pediatrician with a bad case of teething diagnosis, we packed our bags up Saturday morning and drove down to Florida! {Hello, run-on sentence. Goodbye, week from Hell.}
It’s been a long time since I’ve been home. One of the reasons has been my dread of 10 hours in a car with a toddler. I can thank my wonderful husband for overnighting this portable DVD player.
James hardly made a peep on the five hour drive there. He did however, say “Bob” about 5,000 times in request to watch Bob the Builder. And he did however, skip his nap {out of excitement for his DVD player} for the very first time of his life. Not a good outcome, by the way.
Saturday morning, James’ mouth had a miraculous recovery, which = smiles = appetite = happy family. With eyes that never left the TV…
I don’t recommend skipping naps. James hit his wall at 4:30. Leaving three hours of a meltdown before bedtime. So tired that he thought he didn’t need to sleep. Here’s the video monitor. I guess he gave up.
I have to admit, I only took one picture with my camera this entire trip. Here are a few random pictures from my phone.
Lynyrd and his teeny tiny shadow.
My brother has a goldfish, and it was James’ go-to-happy-spot the whole trip. I don’t know if it had a name before this trip, but his new name is “Ish”. James talked about him every. five. minutes.
At some point, my brother talked Justin into doing handstand pushups. {Now that is random.} And it’s moments like this why Justin fits right into my hyperactive family. 5 minutes later, this picture was on Facebook, and a video was posted on youtube.
Josh and James.
Lynyrd and his one true love, Maggie.
Justin, Josh, James and I went to the Jacksonville Beach Pier. It’s five minutes from my parents’ house. The original was torn down by a hurricane a few years ago, and we hadn’t been to the new one yet. We realized that having a kid to entertain keeps you going places and doing things that might otherwise pass you by.
James loved it. He chased the birds around saying, “chirp, chirp”.
We took James to lunch then home for a nap. When he woke up, we went to the beach. He wanted to be in the water the entire time so, there was no time to take pictures. I was just happy to see him laughing.
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We left Tuesday morning. James was a little tougher to soothe on the way home, but did great nonetheless. Bob the Builder and a blue raspberry tootsie pop {gross} did the trick.
It was a well-rounded trip, and it felt good to visit my beach home. It always feels good to get back though. Which is a feeling that I appreciate.
And the picture I took with my camera was from my parents porch when the sun was going down. Not a bad view.
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