Lanie Weekly: Beach Baby

We got back from Florida a couple weeks ago, but true to our busy lives as soon as we got back we were back on the road again four days later for the Ramsey Camping Trip. That is a completely different post in itself because of how crazy hot it was, but if you going to be a sweaty mess who better to be it with than family :)

Florida was an amazing vacation. We had such a good time with the whole family and it was great to take Lanie on her first real big vacation. The normal drive to Destin takes about 10 hours, but I am pretty sure everyone was going that week so it took closer to 14 hours between the traffic and the crazy food places we had to stop and eat at it made for a very long trip down there, but Lanie was a champ. We had borrowed DVD players from our friends and we just kept the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse on nonstop and that made her one happy traveler.

When we got there Lanie got to experience the Ocean right away because the house we stayed on was right on the beach. She loved the sand and the very edge, but going in was a different story a little to big and loud for her liking. The whole week was filled with fun outings, lots of beach and pool time, a ton of reading, and great Wade Family Vacation memories.

The only damper on the trip was Lanie's eczema started to flair up pretty bad the second day into the trip and just kept getting worse. Saturday night we were trying to get some sleep because we were leaving bright and early at 4 a.m. to go back home. Well Lanie was not happy because she was broken out so bad and itching like a crazy woman. I had already given her allergy meds and she was just clawing at her skin. The poor baby was just covered in a rash so I took her to the E.R. that just happened to be like 3 miles from our house and Mark slept because he had to drive. So at midnight Lanie and I were off. When we got there the check in lady was ruder than rude, but they did get up back super quick and the doctor got into to see her in no time. I guess when you have a baby they come first on the list of people waiting. The doctor was shocked at how bad it had gotten and decided to give her a steroid dose and an antibiotic to help with some of the open areas she had scratched. I had already made an apt with her normal doctor for Monday so he said it should hold her until then. We got back to the house at 1:30 and I was super tired and thought Lanie would be to ummmmmm was I wrong. She was ready to go and I couldn't figure out why because she had hardly slept at all. She finally went to sleep at 3:00 only to get up an hour later to drive back. Lanie slept most of the way home and I got a couple hours in too. On Monday we saw her normal doctor and she gave her a topical steroid to bring down the flair up and then went on to explain to be that an oral gives a toddler crazy energy and that is why she always goes the topical route (so that explained crazy Lanie at 2:00 a.m.).

Even with the little E.R. trip the vacation was blast and we can't wait to go back in a couple years with the Wade family. Until then Lanie will perfect her love for the pool and hopefully not be so scared of the waves :)