Here are the rest of the good photos from our trip.
Above, the previously-mentioned garbage boat. Very exciting. Also, clearly I need to make sure all of Eli’s pants have front pockets. Plus make sure that Henry’s shirt is untucked, so he doesn’t look like such an old man.
The nice view from our hotel room, plus the anticipatory excitement of hotel pool. They all loved the pool, but I thought I was going to have a heart attack trying to manage three non-swimmers in a four-foot deep pool.
I know you wanted a close-up of Zuzu in her swimsuit, showing off her fabulous arms, and with fruit leather stickiness all over her face.
A typical road trip scene, though this was maybe in the first few hours of the trip down, so the car isn’t completely trashed yet. The boys loved the reusable sticker storybooks I got on a whim at A.C. Moore. The best part was that they could put the stickers on the windows and they came right off. Notice Zuzu’s cute foot in the corner. And then…notice that, somehow, Eli does not appear to be wearing a seat belt. I have no idea how this happened. I don’t remember him not wearing a seat belt (I mean, I don’t remember jumping back there to re-fasten it), which means he must have undone it at some point and kept it that way until we got to a stop somewhere. Yikes!
Last week I was driving Sam home from day care, and we were about halfway home when he said to me, “You forgot these, Mama.” Huh? I looked in the rearview mirror, and he’s waving the undone straps to his car seat. Gack!
I did this once when Wylie was an infant- say, 4 or 5 months old – after a heinous night staying over at someone’s house before their wedding, in which he cried and cried and cried keeping everyone else up and scott and I hissing viciously at each other in sleep deprivation, and then in that state at 6am I decided, brilliantly, to get in the CAR to drive him to sleep. oh well, he was fine, we made it back, we recovered. still, yeeks.