Vacation in Destin

Our vacation to Destin was a lot of fun! I was so worried about how Bailey would do on the car ride. It was a very long drive and she did great. Ok part of the reason is that I got her out of her car seat a few times to feed her. I know it's not safe to do that but we never would have made it otherwise. I sat in the back seat with her so that I could keep her company. We sang lots of Disney songs and watched Baby Einstein! The only issue that we had was that she got pretty hot sitting in her car seat. She ended up getting all these little red dots all over her. When I researched it, it seemed like she was breaking out in heat rash. We decided to take a nice long lunch break at a rest stop and took her clothes off so she could lay out on her play mat and cool down. Then we bought a box of oatmeal bath. When we got to the hotel that night we bathed her in it in the sink. We ended up giving her 2 baths in the oatmeal and by the next day she was pretty well cleared up. The oatmeal bath worked like a charm. I was really worried about how she would do on the beach. I got her a rash guard shirt (swim shirt) and sun hat and a sun tent to keep her out of the sun. I was more worried about the heat. We brought a battery operated fan to set up under the tent. She did so well! There was only 1 day that was way too hot for her to be outside. There was absolutely no breeze in the air which made her really sticky. It was so nice to travel with my parents because they were more than willing to watch her for us so that we could go out to the beach. Even when we were on the beach they would take turns sitting by her so that we could go play in the water. We put her little feet in the sand and even put her waist deep in the ocean. She did like the water for the most part. She slept so good outside with the breeze and sound of the waves I'm going to do my best to make her room feel like that. We realized that she likes a fan blowing her hair and sleeps so much better. The entire week she slept for 4 hours at a time at night. The best time at the beach to me is walking along in the evenings. Its so nice and relaxing at that time of day. We would walk all the way down to the jetty and by the time we were walking back Bailey was asleep in her Daddy's arms. It was so great getting to spend a week with my family. Bailey really got spoiled by her aunts, uncles and Nana and Papa. She even got lots of attention from her little cousin Barrett. He was so cute with her. Anytime she would cry he would say "oh no!" and run over to her and pat her arm. He played peek a boo with her and made sure she had her pacifier in her mouth. I'm so glad that she is going to have cousins to grow up with. Her first time we put her feet in the sand and then in the ocean, she wasnt so sure what to think. She cried pretty good for awhile but then got used to it. I know she will be a little water bug eventually. All in all it was a really fun relaxing vacation. Ok so at times it didn’t feel relaxing when you think about all the crap we hulled back and forth to the beach but it was worth it!