We were excited to hit our first port - Cozumel, Mexico! We took a cab to a resort with a pool and a beach. Sorry for all the pics but I love too many to cut them out!
Family pic
Lola, me, Emmalyn, Peter, Aja, Jaxton, and Payton (Maxwell was the photographer)
Emmalyn immediately wanted to investigate the sand
Maxwell did NOT like walking on the sand and so he sat on his chair to play in the sand
Peter enjoyed the free wi-fi. (I didn't even bring my phone - I am unplugged baby!)
Her investigation inevitably led to eating the sand despite all my efforts to stop her.
Sandy face
Then we all went down to play in the sand/water
Emmalyn and Payton
Payton was so excited to have found a little crab
Emmalyn and Jaxton
Oh no, she ate more of the sand! Gross!!
This time she wasn't happy about it
Aja caught me in the act of capturing Emmalyn in the sand
Lola playing with Emmalyn
I thought she would enjoy standing in the water but she DID NOT
It's so much fun having this crew around!!
Lola, Tawny, Jaxton, and Payton
Maxwell was loving the time with his cousins. (See the stamps on his hands? One of the prizes I brought on the trip were some stamps and he was all about them whenever we were in our cabin.)
Eventually everyone left the beach and headed for the pool while I worked on getting Emmalyn to take a nap.
Aja and Peter
Maxwell did awesome swimming around and rarely came up for a picture
Maxwell and Payton
Trying to get all the kids together was hard because Maxwell kept going under water
Caught him!
Success!!! I got her to sleep. She was so sweet and perfect.
Up and ready to have more fun
This is the excitement and joy she showed when she saw that I was getting a bottle ready for her:
The gorgeous beach
Snack time. I made PB&J on the boat at breakfast and brought it along.
Maxwell enjoyed taking pictures when I would give him the chance
Maxwell jumped a little on the trampoline
Cool Dude Jaxt
Play the catch the ball game I brought
Best buds
Love this girl!!!
Time to go - she's tired again
First we grabbed a snack. Maxwell enjoyed his kid friendly tropical smoothie
Emmalyn was stuck in her stroller but we gave her some fries and that kept her happy.
Tickles work to get great smiles
Back on the dock.
That's our boat - the Norwegian Jewel
On the way back onto the ship the staff had a party to welcome us back. I've never been on a cruise where they did this, it was great! They had an area with chairs for people to rest, juice and water, fresh baked cookies, and the staff was lining the path cheering, giving high fives, and even gave Maxwell this balloon sword.
Super cool right? Well, it ended up being a huge embarrassing moment for me. So I was trying to help Maxwell and so I was holding his drink of juice and my drink of water. He had grabbed a cookie but then dropped it because he was also holding his sword. I knew I should pick up the cookie and so I tried to quickly bend down and snatch it up and keep moving forward so that we didn't hold up the line. Well, when I bent down, I forgot that I had the juice in my hand so as I grabbed for the cookie, I dumped the juice out all over Maxwell. It was awful. I felt so bad and sooo embarrassed because the crew and passengers around had seen my idiot moment. Maxwell was in shock I think so he didn't get overly upset that I had spilled on him but was upset about his dropped cookie and now spilled juice. Ugh. Good job Kallie, way to handle it. I am such a klutz.
Dinner in a different dining room tonight
Emmalyn was on the end of the table and being pretty good and garnering lots of attention from passersby... and then I smelled poop. Well when I picked her up, I could tell it was bad. Peter held her and I could see she had blown way out of her diaper. I wasn't about to deal with a blow out in a public bathroom so I had to take her to our room but the fastest way to get there was an elevator. Of course we couldn't have an elevator all to ourselves. I totally apologized to the poor people that had to ride in the elevator with me and stinky Emmalyn. I just kept my hand on her shirt on her back the whole time because if not, who knows where else the poop might have gone. It was AWFUL to clean up. Such a mess. By the time I made it back to dinner everyone was done and I was past my limit. She hasn't had a blow out like that for awhile, why now!?
