vacation

In january, we went on a week long vacation to south padre island, tx with my in-laws. overall it was a very relaxed and relaxing week. both kids were very well behaved and super fun the whole week. it was so impressed with them on both airplane rides. lane was super excited to ride a BIG airplane and we heard about it for the whole week before we left. when we took off, lane yelled to all of us,"hold on guys, we are going faster!" then in the middle of the flight, he put the shade up and looked out the window and said,"uh oh, we stopped!" I couldn't help but laugh. Both kids watched movies and ate snacks the entire flight, which was about 2 1/2 hours. kate had fluid in both of her ears so I was a little worried about take off and landing but she was a trooper, only about 2o seconds of crying on the flight down and about 2 mins on the flight home(which felt like 2 hours). Kate is such a great sleeper, she still takes two 2 hour naps during the day and about 12 hours at night. I was a little worried about how we could do anything on vacation around her naps or should we just skip some. also, she needs her own space to sleep in, which there really wasn't in the double room. we put her pack and play in the bathroom. yup, it was cramped and we couldn't use the bathroom whenever she was sleeping but it worked. we ended up pushing off her morning nap most days and she took a long afternoon nap and went to bed early, so she still was a pretty happy day. we spent most mornings on the beach playing in the sand and walking looking for shells. Here are some pictures: