Our trip to Wildwood

Dyllan had her first trip to the beach this past weekend. We left Thursday night in the hopes that Dyllan would sleep through most of the ride, and we were happy that she did. We kind of anticipated it would be a lot of work taking her with us on a trip, and boy were we right!! For one, she requires more "stuff" than both of us combined so the new car got put to the test and was packed to the hilt. In addition, taking her down to the ocean had its own issues when...

A) It's a constant juggle trying to keep her out of the sun, yet occupied. Considering she hates staying in one place, I needed to keep her super entertained so that she'd be willing to stay under the umbrella. No reading or relaxing for me!

B) She wants to eat the sand.

C) No matter what I did, it seemed sand was constantly near/in her eyes, as well as many other places! Sweaty baby plus sand made for a messy girl. She had to get sand scrubbed out of all her little arm creases and leg rolls ;)

Well, despite these struggles, Dyllan did really well and I was pleased with how things went. While it's not really a "vacation" since it's so much extra work, it's still a ton of fun to now have her in our lives and along on our adventures with us. Trying new things with her and, most importantly, watching her enjoy them, is worth all the work!


Lugged the exersaucer down to the beach house to keep her occupied....


Dyllan's first trip to the boardwalk. We thought she'd love looking around at everything but the cool breeze and bumpy planks of the boardwalk was the perfect equation for a long nap...

Beach girl! We spent the whole time under the umbrella....

She was constantly rolling her way over to the sand and I was constantly bringing her back to the blanket...

She was such a good girl when we went out to dinner and let mommy and daddy enjoy a really nice Italian meal....

She was also great during a little day trip to Cape May. Loved hanging out in the park...