Jet Lag

Jet lag sucks. There's just no other way to say it. Anyone who who has traveled across multiple time zones knows how incredibly difficult it is for your body to adjust. It's hard enough for an adult, who is aware of what's going on. But what about for an 18-month old? Our poor little E just doesn't understand why she's tired all day, can't sleep at night, and doesn't feel well.

So what do you do with a baby who wakes up at 4AM? It's hard to stay home because then you wake up everyone else in the house. Not to mention when she wants to sleep all day and is super tired and crabby, it makes it difficult to go anywhere or do anything else during the entire day. So if you don't get out in the morning, you might be cooped up in the house all day.

So we thought, we might as well take advantage of our early morning rise! At 5AM, we ventured out for Sweetwater's Doughnuts and a trip to Meijer's.

Yep, she's in her jammies alright! She loved the doughnuts and had a great time playing with all the toys at the store. Crazy to think that we went out to breakfast and finished grocery shopping by 7AM. At least we took advantage of our early morning: got out of the house for a bit and were productive. :)

The first two nights E slept from 9-4, and I really shouldn't even complain about that because past trips to Michigan she's been up from about midnight-5AM wide awake! So this trip is going much better so far, despite the lack of sleep and some very tired parents. But let's hope the third night goes even better and that we make some progress!