The last weekend in July we embarked on our first family trip of the summer to Kansas City with my whole family. We went to Oceans of Fun one day and Worlds of Fun the next. Although it was EXTREMELY hot outside, it was a lot of fun spending time with everyone.
We left right around Bella's naptime on Thursday thinking she would sleep a good part of the way down. Well..... not so much. She slept all of 20 minutes and was awake for the other 3 hours. However, she was happy watching DVD's and playing with Mommy! Blowing kisses...
Making silly faces...
Kicking the chair and playing peek-a-boo...
And snuggling with her little buddies, Elmo and baby!
Daddy walking around with Bella outside of a restaurant on the first night. That night, she was so completely wiped out. When we got to the hotel around 4, I tried to get her to take a nap since she had only slept 20 minutes the whole day. Well, apparently she just had too much energy from being cooped up in the car, because she definitely did not go to sleep! So Bella had a 20 minute nap the entire day! :) She was still happy though, but conked out quickly that night.
Bella had lots of fun playing with her cousins, especially "Dee Dee" (Bella's term for Dylann).
On Friday, we went to Worlds of Fun. We never ventured too far from the baby pool area because Bella refused to leave the water. Anytime I took her out for a drink or to eat, she started saying, "Pool! Pool!"
She kept us very busy following wherever she decided to take off to!
Pretty sure nobody should look this cute in a little bikini. :)
Bella loved splashing around in the water!
Mommy and Bella- notice her mad expression because she wanted me to let her down to go back in the pool!
The best picture I got of all the kids- not so easy to do with busy Bella who wants to take off all the time!
Thankfully Bella slept really well at the hotel. I was a little nervous because the last time we tried to have her sleep somewhere besides home or her carseat, she was scared. We brought the pack-n-play along, and although she was a little scared at first, she did fine and slept great every night. This was after she woke up on Saturday morning- everything had to be on her lap!
Saturday we went to Worlds of Fun, and it was ridiculously hot. We ended up going to the car for a bit because Bella needed a nap and she wasn't falling asleep in the stroller. I think it was just too hot for her! So Derek and I brought her back, which was fine because we got to cool off as well. And actually, the power ended up going out in the park during that time, so we really didn't miss anything at all!
Bella is obviously too little to go by herself on any of the rides, and they wouldn't let adults go on any of the kid rides. However, there was this ball house in the kid part of the park, and Bella had lots of fun playing around in there!
I think she may have even swiped a ball from here. However, we disposed off it as it was very dirty!
We stayed at an Embassy Suites, so Bella had lots of fun playing with the water fountain!
Saturday was also my dad's birthday, so we had a nice meal at the hotel restaurant to celebrate it. We ordered a piece of chocolate cake for him... but I'm pretty sure Dylann and Jager might have taken down more of it than he did. :)
Uncle Jer with Bella, Dylann, and Jager after we ate on Saturday. Tatum unfortunately didn't feel very good on Saturday, so she didn't want to be in any pictures.
Our family- complete with Bella's precious nigh-nigh! It was a very fun weekend, and we are ready to go on our next few trips soon!
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