The Room

The kids found various ways to entertain themselves in the hotel room.

But mostly Sylvie played with the room's kitchenette serving utensils or found something random to carry around (like her socks in the picture below) and Brady watched the Thomas DVD that Mimi got him for Christmas about 247 times (as he is in the picture below).

Getting them down to sleep was a little tricky the first night. Sylvie is an awesome sleeper at home. We put her down sometimes totally awake and she just blinks at us and smiles from behind her paci. In the hotel room, there were just too many distractions. So even as tired as she was, she kept popping her head up out of the crib to see where her brother was and what we were doing. After a crazy first night, we worked it out. I stayed in the room with Sylvie and got her ready for bed and put her down without any issues. The boys went out and did something fun- they either stayed at the pool (like they did on NYE) or went to the hotel's arcade to play air hockey and go dinosaur hunting with the claw game.

It also took us a bit to figure out Brady's place. The first night he thought it might be fun to sleep on the floor. That lasted about 2 minutes. He slept with Daddy for 2 nights and then with me for 2 nights and it worked out fine.