Miami 2011

We were lucky enough to go to Miami again this year and it was just what we needed - sunshine and warmth - unlike last year when we barely got to spend time at the pool! Trevor is definitely a great traveler and loved not having to pack (or wear) a jacket while we were there. The day before we left Trevor was diagnosed with a double ear infection (booooooo) but the meds kicked in right away and he had no problem with the flight.

Daddy worked Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday morning but with no group dinners planned we got to eat dinner together every night and even had one lunch together. Yum, pizza!


On our walk back to our hotel, we spotted a toddler playground. Of course, T thinks he's older then he is and had to try crawling up the slide after watching older kids do it.

He very much enjoyed the sun on his face!

He chased the other kids around, hoping they would include him in on their fun!

On Thursday evening Trevor twisted our arm and got some ice cream! Not that hard to do considering Mommy and Daddy love pretty much any sweet treat! He is a big fan too!

On Friday Trevor took a three hour nap by the pool. Doesn't he look comfy in his Target (red and khaki) outfit? Gotta support Dada!

We stayed at the Epic hotel, which was like paradise! This was the view from the balcony in our room.

Our room was on the 24th floor:

No surprise here that Trevor took full advantage of the pool! He is such a water baby! It will be even more fun when we don't have to worry about his ears so much and he can blow bubbles, dunk his head, and float on his back. But for now his floatie is just fine!

Trevor even had the opportunity to have storytime pool-side! Books, sun, and warmth - what else could our little guy want?

Trevor and Dada had a lot of great bonding time on the trip which is so fun to see. Mama's boys even had matching faux-hawks!

On Saturday we headed to South Beach and Trevor enjoyed his fun in the sun, well mostly he was all about the sand. The $2.99 sand toys we purchased across the street was well worth the cost!

Yes Mama? You are blocking my sun!

Wait, there is water here?

Bring me to the water Dada! But why isn't Momma coming?

There were some washed up jellyfish on the beach so it was better to be carried!

Trevor got very, very good at pointing out airplanes to us. He'd hear one, look up, find it then point and announce airplane (sounds more like airpaaaaaaaaaaane) to anyone who would listen!

So, like always we took way too many pictures at the beach, but how could you not with this cutie?!?! Now if only we learned editing software we could take this guys head out of our otherwise good photo:

Two happy beach buddies!

Come play with me!

And one of two family shots from the trip :)

Our last night there we took full advantage of the nightly wine happy hour (yes, they really had one hour of free wine!) and Brian's coworker Jon took our other family shot from the pool deck where happy hour was.

Our little guy was a bit bored because they didn't have kiddie cocktails but soon he was going from group to group to say hi. He really knows how to work a room!

That evening we went with Jon and his girlfriend Katie to a Brazilian Steakhouse for dinner. It was awesome! Jon and Katie like entertaining Trevor with their fun phone games. Who had the better game? Definitely Katie - he loves pretty girls!

Here our big boy is enjoying one of his last bedtime bottles. We purposely waited on weaning him from this bottle until after we went to Miami because we wanted the bottle for the plane and why rock his bedtime routine when we are far from home?

Although he was a rock star sleeper the first three nights, his last night was less than stellar. He was running a little fever and had his last molar popping through and woke up crying three or four times. Here we were worried that the LA Clippers player staying next door was going to be loud during the night - in reality Trevor probably kept him up! What can we do?

But in the morning, our little guy was all smiles as we got to spend our last day in the pool. Do we have to go back to the cold he seemed to say. Let's just stay here!