A day in the life...: Livin' it up in Florida for spring break...

Palmer and I took a little trip, sans Dan, to Florida the week after Easter. It was Palmer's 7th plane trip in his short little life! He's quite the traveler with two trips to Chicago and a jaunt to Puerto Rico under his belt. He's usually stellar on plane trips - no screaming fits...yet! However, I was still a little apprehensive about making the trip on my own. Plus, we flew Spirit airlines and I'd heard some scary tales of lost baggage, long delays and very little space. It didn't start out too great...Dan took us to the airport and helped us in with our luggage. Let's just say that some of the rumors are true. Spirit airlines customer service is extremely slow! They only had two lines open and took their sweet time helping people. Then the security line was endless...in all our times flying out of DFW we've never waited more than 10 minutes in line for security. Thankfully, we made it to our gate just as they were boarding!
Palmer had a great trip...he just "loved" the guy sitting next to us! If Palmer was awake, he was staring at him smiling and talking. Luckily, the guy was very nice and made funny faces to make Palmer smile bigger. Unfortunately, I didn't get any good pictures of us on the plane...it's hard to get a picture when you can't see what you're taking!
We had such a good time with my grandparents and parents!! Palmer got lots of loving and cuddling which he loves. He did make mommy a bit of a liar because I raved about what a good sleeper he was and he decided it was a good time to NOT sleep in and NOT take naps. Palmer usually sleeps until 9:30am or 10am but on this trip, he was literally up with the sun no later than 8am! He was all 'you can't make me sleep in even with blankets over the windows and your phone on the lightning bug app!' If we were out and about during a nap, he did everything in his power to keep himself awake. We took a drive to the Gulf Coast one day during his nap because I assured everyone that he would sleep in the car. Not so, the little stink butt stayed awake the entire 2 hour drive!! Fortunately, he didn't scream the whole way either. I figured out that if I showed him a picture of his daddy when he started crying, the tears would stop and he'd start talking to the picture...that boy sure do love him his daddy! Regardless of all the sleeplessness, he was his usual sweet self. He had all his grandparents charmed in minutes with his big toothless grins and sweet talkin'.