oh the memories...

last night, i was reading kelly's post...and i thought back to when Quinn was 11 months old. we were going to florida for a week. my sister, abbe, and her family were already down there with my grandmother. we left sunday night after J.Q. got off from work and drove to birmingham for the night. we had planned on driving the rest of the way on monday morning. we were also planning on Quinn to sleep on the way to birmingham and then putting him in the bed when we got there...easy, huh? not so much!!! he screamed from the time we got in the room till the time we left around 2am. he did not want anything to do with that room. our room was at the end of the hallway and J.Q. went to the car to get something...he came back and said that he could hear Quinn screaming in the lobby. so...that meant that every person between our room and the lobby were hearing this child screaming!!! so...after everything i had in "my mom hat of things to calm your child" was used and had not succeeded...we decided to get in the car and just drive the rest of the way. i had to convince J.Q. that Quinn would be fine (he did okay...not the best but okay?!?) down there with the family because he just wanted to come back home!!! we loaded the car back up and as soon as Quinn's head hit is carseat...he was out!!! UGH!!! thank goodness my sweet grandmother was there because she took Quinn and J.Q. and I got to rest some before hitting the beach. the positive thing was...we did get an extra day on the beach by getting there bright and early on monday morning!

here are a couple of pictures from our trip on the way down...

about to leave...we are excited and ready!!! Quinn was in a great mood!!!

and then....

not so great mood

i believe this was about an hour into the brief hotel stay in birmingham...

the clock...this was about 2 hours into the screaming...

still mad...

arrived in florida...monday morning...happy as can be playing with meredith...

all the while...his parents were worn out!!!