Fun with Auntie Em

We've had a fun-filled few days with the Higginson clan as both Lee and Emily celebrated birthdays this week. We had a great dinner last night, and then more fun today.

Here are a few pics of Evy abusing her auntie Emily and playing with cousin Sam (who is only 4 months older, yet looks 4 YEARS older!)

Cousin Sam teaching Evy to crawl

showing Em (aka auntie yumyum) the hand

sitting pretty with cousin Sam

two pretty girls

mister Samsam

We've also been busy getting ready for our trip to Florida. Rob is already there - he flew down yesterday for a conference for work and Evy and I are joining him on Tuesday. I'm still trying to figure out what exactly we need to bring to survive 12 days with a very active 9-month old.

Rob actually has two conferences for work, so he won't be around every day, but Evy and I figured it'd be much nicer to be alone in Florida than it would be to be alone in Millbrook! We're staying near Orlando for the first night, then in Cocoa Beach for 3 nights, then we're driving across to the Gulf Coast and are in Clearwater Beach for 7 nights, and finally back to Orlando for our final night before flying back on Easter Sunday. Phew!

Fingers crossed that Miss Evy continues to sleep as well as she has been. We're sharing a hotel room with her for some of the nights, and I'm really hoping that it doesn't cause her to regress back to the 'waking 13x a night phase'. Because that wouldn't be much of a holiday at all. And we might give her away to manatees. And that would be sad.