It's May/Beach Trip in March

Did I even post anything in April? Probably not. The laptop I usually post from is on its last leg... or maybe last 1/8th of a leg. Seriously, it's done-zo. And once it dies, we will have not one, not two, but THREE dead laptops hanging around our house that my husband doesn't want to get rid of. Le sigh.

Anyway, I can hardly believe that it's MAY! I feel like 2015 is just flying by! I'm super behind here, but I thought I'd post a quick blurb about our beach trip in March. It was an adventure all its own.

Eric had two weeks of vacation, so we spent the last 6 days at Kiawah Island, SC, about 45 minutes outside of Charleston. Eric's parents and sister and brother in law came out for the last few days of it, so we stayed in this super nice house about a mile from the beach. The island had tons of bike/running trails and a cute little shopping area. It totally felt like a place you could come stay for the whole summer like they do in the movies.

Unfortunately, we only got to go to the beach one day of our six. The other days were rainy and cold. Which was fine, since we had our amazing house to stay in and Charleston not too far away. We had a lot of fun watching March Madness and playing pool. At least until our dear sweet son decided to stop sleeping...

That's when things got a little (a LOT) not-vacationy. The first day was fine. On Day 2, Samuel decided napping was lame and climbed out of the pack and play repeatedly until we finally gave in and let him skip his nap. On day 3, we went to Charleston and didn't even bother with the nap. He crawled out of the pack and play at night a couple of times, but still went to sleep,

He skipped his nap again on Day 4. This happened around 3 pm. 

But then the rest of the family got there, and he REALLY didn't want to go to sleep. Day 4 meant not going down until close to 10 pm, and then a little nose in my face at 6 am the next morning. "Mommy, watch Peppa Pig?" And it all would have been well and good if he would have actually just WATCHED Peppa Pig,but he wanted to run and jump and kick me a bunch. Oh my.

And of course he still didn't nap.

Sleeping in the car on the way home.

By the last night, Eric and I were sleeping in a big bed with him... We fell asleep at 11 pm, I don't know when he went out. And we were up at 6 again doing nothing. As you can imagine, it turned out to be a very grouchy week. We were still so thankful we were able to go, though. We got to visit with family, go to the aquarium, eat some yummy food, and see some more of God's beautiful creation!

When we got home, Samuel decided that, since he could crawl out of the pack and play, he should just crawl out of his crib too. So he did. Three days later, we moved his mattress onto the floor, rearranged his room, and put him in his "big boy bed" for the first time. It's been an adjustment and he still isn't sleeping as much as he needs to, but he at least stays in his room all night.

Hopefully our next "relaxing" beach "vacation" will be a little less adventurous. ;-)