{"id":712,"date":"2006-11-16T15:57:49","date_gmt":"2006-11-16T21:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/2006\/vay-cay-with-bay-bay\/"},"modified":"2006-11-16T16:03:09","modified_gmt":"2006-11-16T22:03:09","slug":"vay-cay-with-bay-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/2006\/vay-cay-with-bay-bay\/","title":{"rendered":"Vay-cay with bay-bay"},"content":{"rendered":"

This weekend, we ventured up to Wisconsin to visit our city-turned-country friends, the Marions, in our “second”:\/news\/2006\/have-baby-will-travel\/ out-of-state family trip ever. Despite a case of the “sniffles”:\/news\/2006\/first-sniffle\/, everyone had quite an enjoyable time.<\/p>\n

\"On<\/p>\n

p{color:gray}. Photo: Don’t pick that pumpkin! It’s a human!<\/p>\n

On Thursday night before departing, Jon and I decided on two goals: 1) We should make our trip as vacation-y as possible, and 2) we should use all of our working energy to actually push us out of the house on Friday. I find the packing and departure process to be the most labor-intensive part of traveling with a baby, even when we are trying to pack “light”:\/news\/2006\/traveling-light\/. (Ha!) Lucy had a delightfully long nap on Friday morning, which aided our efforts, and we drove away at 1:45 pm. Not bad!<\/p>\n

We celebrated our departure with a Peppermint Hot Chocolate and a Gingerbread Latte from Starbucks at the O’Hare Oasis, and then enjoyed a quiet drive with Lucy napping in the backseat for almost two hours. The hum of the car and gentle rain seemed to lull her into peaceful slumber. As the rain turned to hail and Lucy’s refreshment was complete, she awoke with a desire to play — difficult with two parents in the front seat. Jon and I began what I am sure will be a long tradition of “singing”:\/news\/2006\/songs-from-the-boyds-nest\/ various songs to our child in an attempt to entertain her. Lucy’s favorites included traditional warm-up scales sung in full operatic soprano by Mama (seriously), “Let it Snow,” the Mickey Mouse song, and, of course, her own personalized version of “Mama Yo Quiero.”<\/p>\n

\"Franz\"<\/p>\n

p{color:gray}. Photo: Lucy met Franz the Goat, among other new four-footed friends.<\/p>\n

Lucy was overjoyed to finally get on the floor and roll around once we arrived at the Marions’. The weekend was filled with fun playtime with good friends, yummy food for the big people, and happy moments with the farm animals for all. A highlight for Mama was a Sunday morning walk with Lucy to visit the goats, pigs, cows, chickens, and horse. I appreciated the peaceful, quiet moments, Lucy seemed to enjoy seeing the animals in the flesh (as opposed to just in a book), and everyone else in the house got to snooze without being disturbed by Lucy’s gleeful cawing noises.<\/p>\n

Our return home went relatively smoothly, except for Lucy’s one-day-only protest at sleeping in her crib again. She screamed bloody murder for each sleep on Monday, terrifying us into imagining that we had permanently broken her ability to go to sleep peacefully. But Tuesday morning brought back the same old Lucy we know, and she chatted her way “happily”:\/news\/2006\/happy-napper\/ into dreamland. What a resilient girl!<\/p>\n

We have noticed that it is really a lot more work to go on vacation with our darling baby than it is to just stay at home. Between the amount of stuff we pack up, the unfamiliar routines, and the lack of exersaucer, it ends up sometimes being more work than fun. Of course, it is worth it to visit good friends every once in awhile. But what does this mean for Boyd family vacations in the next couple of years? Time will tell. In the meantime, we are all enjoying being back in our little Boyds’ Nest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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