Several of my actions over the past 12 hours might encourage you to call CPS on us, but please know that I normally give my kids top-notch care. And, by the way, I think The Girl likes sleeping in a drawer. We're recuperating in a hotel in Miami and awaiting our flight to S.A. Just to recap a few of our more stressful moments today...- We overslept 40 minutes and only a call from the hotel lobby from our dog expediter woke us.
- The Boy has eaten a half sleeve of Ritz crackers, a quarter of a bag of Cheerios, 2 packages of Special K crisps, two bites of peanut butter and rhubarb jelly sandwich (thanks Baci!), and he drank about two and a half gallons of water.
- The Boy peed through his diaper, pjs, and the airline seat. Good thing the seat is equipped with a flotation device. Then he peed his new diaper, shorts, and stroller.
- We dropped the dog kennel on its side... with The Dog inside.
- The Girl is napping in a drawer (Notice that the baby in the picture isn't ours. This baby has probably been bathed and changed in the past 24 hours.)
- The Boy wouldn't sleep in the hotel bed so we strapped him in the stroller (in the room) and waited for him to fall asleep.*
- The airline told us we had to pick up our luggage in Miami because we have a 15-hour lay-over, so we packed all our hot-weather gear (sandals, shorts, swim suits) and our toiletries in our suitcases along with The Boy's tent and The Girl's port-a-crib. When we got to the airport all of our luggage (except The Dog) was checked through to La Paz. Here we sit in Miami, sweating in long pants and shirts. We can shower but don't have anything to make us smell any better. I feel for our sponsors who are picking us up at the airport (at 5:30am tomorrow).
- MH got some free toiletries from the front desk and was warned about the razor: "If you are a brave man, you will shave with that my friend. It is a killer."
- We stiffed the Skycap at Dulles because we only had $20s and really should have given him more considering we have 8 bags, 7 carry-ons, two car seats (with one base), a double stroller, two babies, a blind dog, and not a clue what we are getting into.
*The stroller/crib incident was prior to the peeing incident
