The flight down was pretty uneventful – both kids did great on the plane and even slept for the majority of the trip. The weather on the first day was a bit cool, so we headed to the zoo. Avery loved seeing all of the animals.
Alex slept through most of it, but seemed to enjoy what he did see (as much as an 8 month old can enjoy those things). The next two days were spent in the pool and on the beach.
Avery had a great time playing in the pool, but was very hesitant. Most of the other kids were diving under water and splashing up a storm. Avery preferred to pretty much chill out on the stairs and watch everyone. 
Oh, and she also enjoyed “getting rid of some energy” by running in place or jumping in place in the water. 
That was about as crazy as she got. Alex also LOVED the pool. He swam around with Josh quite a bit and had a great time. 
But, as with most vacations with a toddler and a baby, there were a few obstacles along the way. Alex started the vacation off with a horrible cold (dr. said that it was a light case of bronchialitis), so for the first two nights, he woke up at approx. 330 AM with horrible coughing spells. It took us about an hour to calm him down and get him back to sleep and of course, since we were all in the same room, it would wake Avery up. Nothing like having 2 kids up at 330 am on vacation. After that, something was bugging his stomach, so he woke up every hour for the last 2 nights with gas pains.
Then, on our second to last night there, we went to dinner and Alex was having nothing to do with it. So, for the first time in my life as a mother, I actually had to leave the restaurant to take him back to the room (thankfully we were eating at the restaurant in the hotel). Given my obsession with food, you can imagine that this was not exactly what I had in mind and I was not exactly thrilled, but don’t you worry – I stopped the waitress on my way out and threatened to leave my 8 month old, tired, cranky, sick baby with her unless she gave me my glass of wine that I ordered. She was clearly very freightened, so she handed it over without hesitation. And, for the record, Josh did offer to take him up, but seeing as how it was his family who we were on vacation with, I figured it would be best if I went. It was fine. I put him to bed, drank my wine, watched the oscar’s and then Josh brought my meal up later. Here's the little stinker the next day, as happy as a clam....
So, that night, at approximately 5 am, Avery decided to share her meal with us a second time by throwing it up all over her bed. And, she has never really gotten sick like that, so she was pretty freaked out and proceeded to scream the entire time I was giving her a shower. I’m sure our neighbors loved us. She appeared to be fine the next day and was out swimming again at 9 am. She wasn’t 100%, but managed to get her water aerobics in anyway. 
Other than those minor incidents, everyone had fun and it was a nice break for Josh and I to have his parents there. I even (dare I say it) got to lay in the sun for a full hour one day all by myself. It was amazing.Last weekend, we took Avery to gymnastics for the first time. She loved it!!!! I didn’t get a chance to get any pictures, but will post some when I do. She seems to be pretty good at it. I can’t imagine that this will necessarily be “her thing” considering her mother (yes, me) doesn’t even know how to do a cartwheel and never has, but then again, no one in my family can really carry a tune and look at what a fabulous singer I turned out to be. :)
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