Day 6 - Caribbean Cruise 2015 - Day at Sea

Ahhhh....A nice relaxing day at sea!  I love days at sea almost as much as I love days as port.  Days at sea = laid back schedules, naps relatively on time, and lots of fun on the boat.

Our day started with room service.  The little individual sized boxed of cereal have been the jackpot with our kids.

Emmalyn watching the ocean with daddy.  She looks little but she looks even more little when she's just in her diaper.

Always so happy in the morning

Enjoying fruit on the balcony

Buddies headed to go make some balloon animals.

It was fun to learn how to make fun things with balloons.  Aunt Aja was a natural!

Maxwell and his two poodles

Sword fight!

Emmalyn did a little coloring with edible crayons (I love that all the art stuff for the babies is edible.  I need to get me some of that!)

Maxwell decorated cupcakes

He had a lot of fun (and I had "fun" keeping Emmalyn happy while he worked)

We took the kids swimming in the little kid pool

Emmalyn liked crawling around

Maxwell splashing

Emmalyn splashing

They had a lot of fun!

Even when on vacation, we can still find a place for timeout when a certain little man isn't making good choices or being a good listened.

Enjoying dinner.  Lola got her face painted at the kids zone (Payton, Jaxton, and Lola all had a great time going to the kids zone).  Maxwell apparently had a chance to get his painted and he didn't want to.

Cheerios!  They keep a baby happy even when it's not breakfast.

Aunt Aja, Jaxton, and Aunt Tawny

Yeah!  Dessert!!  I get all of this?!

I got the molten lava nearly every night.   It's my favorite!

Finishing every last drop of that ice cream.

Boom! Mr. Cool

Video - Maxwell showing off his rock star moves

  

Aja stayed with the baby and we took Maxwell out for a special late night out.  First we went to a show in the theater that was sort of a cirque show.  He thought it was quite cool.

What silly parents

Kisses from Maxwell

Kisses for Maxwell (his face breaks my heart here - what a precious boy)

ready for the show!

After the show we went to the white hot dance party for a little bit of dancing.  Maxwell was still in a loving mood.

Dancing with my favorite little dance partner

It was such a great day filled with so many fun things.  It's so great to spend quality time with the kids!

Day 4 - Caribbean Cruise 2015 - Belize

Today was a nice, easy day.   We knew that we weren't going to go do anything in Belize other than get off the boat and hit the shops on the pier.  We had been told that Belize wasn't a place you wanted to go explore on your own unless you were going on a guided excursion.  It's very much a third world country that is very undeveloped.  So, since none of the excursions would work well with the kids, we spent most of the time at port enjoying the empty ship.  (Tawny told us that she had taken the kids outside of the gates at the pier to go to a park that one of the locals had told her about but after she got outside the gates she felt uneasy almost immediately about the surroundings and they came back inside the guarded gates.)

Maxwell enjoying his morning time on the iPad

We enjoyed time out on the balcony looking at the gorgeous view

It's fun to have Maxwell old enough to take some decent pics (although from a pretty low perspective).  :)

Happy girl was having a great time

She is so short the feet of her PJs just hang off her legs...

Here's a view of our suite.  This was an upgraded "suite" and certainly was the most roomy we've ever had (which according to cruise standards is still very tiny).  There was a curtain that divided the tv/couch area and the bed.  It was perfect because whoever was stuck in the room with the kid(s) during nap time or bedtime could just shut that curtain and still have the light on by the bed without disturbing the kids.  They could also go sit out on the balcony too.

Since we weren't hurrying anywhere, we went to a restaurant for breakfast instead of the buffet and enjoyed a leisurely breakfast.

How can you beat the view of that gorgeous water for breakfast?

Video - Emmalyn had honeydew for the first time on this cruise (it was consistently a good soft texture for her to eat) and loved it.  Lately she has been spitting out nearly every bite of food after she puts it into her mouth and then will put it back into her mouth.  It makes a messy meal into an even messier meal.

Perfection.  I adore this picture.

He really enjoyed watching what was going on

Of course Emmalyn is too focused on food to look up for a picture.  That girl loves to eat.

The ship had a great little room full of toys for children under 2 (since they couldn't participate in the kids zone).  The room was open most of the time and they would rotate the toys so you could come in later in the day and find a totally different group of toys.  It was such a great space and I appreciated it was so available regardless of what was going on in the kids zone.  

We dropped Maxwell off at the kids zone to play for awhile and then we went to the toddler room with Emmalyn. 

Her outfit showed those darling baby legs.

Eventually we got off the boat and took a tender to shore

It was super hot and humid so we didn't spend much time shopping.  The fam rested while I went into a shop for something I wanted.  Peter sure had Emmalyn giggling...

We spent the time on port just as a family.  Aja went on an excursion on her own to some ruins and Tawny and her kids hung out on the dock while Jaxton danced to earn some money.  He did a pretty good job of drawing a crowd.  He's got some really cool moves.

On the way back to the boat this time the crew had another welcome aboard party.  They gave out drinks, had cold wet towels, and frozen juice popsicles. What a treat!  (and no embarrassing incident this time)

Our balcony was right over the place where the tenders met up with the boat.  I was fascinated to watch the process and also watched them pack everything up and close up the boat again when it was time to leave.

Oh no, Emmalyn has my hair.  

Poor girl is doomed to a life of curl and frizz and poof when she's in the humidity.  Sorry, Emmalyn!!!!