10 months old & Florida

I can't believe he's in the double digits! He might as well be graduating from high school, I feel that he's all grown up now. Silly, I know.

We just got back from Florida where Wesley got to hit the beach for the first time. He was apprehensive about putting his toes into the sand, but had no problem putting the sand in his mouth. (The other day we caught him lying on  the ground sucking on the wheel of his stroller.)

We went with my parents and brother and grandparents, so it was a 4-generational vacation. We stayed at the Pink Shell and had a 2-bedroom 2-bath suite for the 6 of us (grandparents got their own suite) with beautiful views of the beach. The hotel was lovely - beautiful pool, good food, and the room was nice. It was great for families with young kids and there were plenty of them.

Wesley is a great vacation-er. He slept through both flights, and would have slept the entire way home had we not got diverted to Indianapolis (we ended up renting a car and driving home from there - anything better than sitting on a plane with a squirmy 10 month old).

He loved the pool however, and those swimming lessons helped because he wasn't scared and loved to kick his feet and move his arms when Matt helped him "swim." When we would sit him on the edge of the pool, he kept trying to "jump" in. But the pool was also 0-depth and Wesley loved sitting in the water splashing (just like the tub). He didn't ever try to pull off his hat, but the sunglasses were not a hit with him.

One day we went to Naples and took a walk on their pier where we saw dolphins and jellyfish, and fisherman gutting caught fishes. Then we walked along some of Naples pretty downtown streets where Wesley's stroller almost ran over a large black snake hanging out on the sidewalk.

We had some Good Eats too -- most notably a heavenly biscuit sandwich for breakfast at the Heavenly Biscuit one morning (when my mom watched the baby) -- a tiny shack of a place that had the best biscuits and cinnamon rolls right on the main strip, but don't blink or you'll miss it. For dinner one night, we went "upscale" and had dinner at the Sandy Butler. Wesley was really well-behaved and made another girlfriend with the waitress. They had the best key lime pie on the trip. And one morning we drove into Fort Myers for famous donuts from Bennetts - really good coffee too.

We were sad that we only stayed 5-days (we thought we'd be ready to go after 5 and this way Matt only took 3 vacation days). Everyone else is leaving Friday and after our ordeal on the flight home, we should have just stayed. Oh well... we're back in the cold weather now (this May has been terrible here).