Young Party of Four

Last weekend we traveled down to good ole South Florida for about 36 hours. It was a bit of a whirlwind style trip, but we had such a great time that it was worth us to recap it for posterity. We always know we are likely to take a S. Florida trip in early January. Our friends' kiddo is a January baby so we always try to make it down for his birthday party. This year we decided to just stay one night and traveled down on Saturday, the day of his party. We left our house bright and early. As in 6:45am. After picking up some McDonald's breakfast for the road, we were on our way. We made it all the way to Fort Pierce with the kiddos before we had to make a bathroom stop. That was the plan all along so it is always nice when that works out. We were only out of the car for less than 20 minutes then back in for the remainder of the trip down. We set up a movie for the kids to watch and the settled in to watch Descendants 2. Traffic was pretty light so we made it down earlier tha...

Last weekend we made a quick trip to South Florida. Our reason for going down was to attend the second birthday party of one adorable toddler. We decided to add a day in again this year like we did last year and take some time to do something fun since we were already out of town. We picked Kenzie up from school on Friday afternoon, went by the house for a potty break, and then immediately left for South Florida. Will had fallen asleep in the car while we were getting gas before waiting to pick Kenzie up. We debated for a bit whether to wake him up and make him potty or just let him continue to sleep and risk an accident or having to race to a service plaza so he could potty when he woke up. We elected to let him sleep which both worked out well and backfired later in the day but we at least made it without bathroom accident incident. He has gotten so great at traveling without pull-ups. Anyway, after a quick stop to change Kenzie's shoes and let everyone potty, we were on our wa...