First Travel with Baby

I know we didn’t hop on a plane, but at 8 months, we decided to take our first vacation with the little one. It was a short 2 hour drive up north to the West Coast of Florida where we basked in the sun’s rays for a weekend in Marco Island. We met up with family and had a really good time. I was dreading a possible disaster, since you tend to hear a lot of horror stories about traveling with a baby, but things were relatively uneventful.

We had to change some of our usual beach habits: getting used to the fact that we will not be able to complete a nice cold adult beverage in one sitting (mine would become warm and need multiple ice refills due to it just sitting there for sometimes hours untouched), one of us having to head back to the hotel room to put her to sleep if she was resistant on falling asleep on the beach (aka; every time), and sand eating. So much sand eating.

I packed so much, and realized that I needed only half of it. Thankfully, we were able to squeeze it all into our Nissan Cube, but I wanted to put together this post with a revised packing list and share it with all of you. I figured the geeky moms out there that read my blog would appreciate it now that I have some experience. I also am so glad we took a vacation before Luna’s birthday trip to Disney later this year. It helped us realize what we really need and don’t, and kind of what the experience will be like (you are on baby’s time, not yours). I highly recommend making a mini trip before if you have a bigger trip planned.

With that said, here is the newly revised list (it is a .jpg so that you can save and share as you wish).
Keep in mind that it is geared towards a beach vacation, since that’s my only experience thus far.
I hope this helps!