Meltdown Moments

This year, PC and I decided to forego any major Christmas gift giving to each other and go on a mini-trip instead.  We had a good time but there was one baby meltdown that had us breaking out in a sweat!  I thought I would share it here because when people share a meltdown story, I am laughing and feeling your pain at the same time. 

LB had fallen asleep on the way to eat.  We took him in a fish house restaurant in his car seat still asleep and put him in the net holder thing.  He actually slept through most of the meal but we (thought) we were glad when he woke up because he needed to eat.  LB looked around at this loud place covered in fish decor and he was not happy to be there.  Cue crying.  You would think we would have just headed out the door at that point, but LB loves fish and we didn't take much baby food and needed him to eat.  PC moved the holder and pulled the high chair around.  We try to put him in it, still crying- all the while I'm trying to stuff fish in his mouth- but he stiffens his legs and is not having it.  A shoe comes off.  PC moves around to reach for the shoe and his chair falls over.  Cue big crash noise where there is that second that a (loud) restaurant becomes silent- think crashing plate- and all eyes are us, the couple trying to convince a baby in meltdown mode that he wants to eat fish in a strange place.  That was a very long second and I should have had more sympathy for PC but I had to laugh at that point.  We tried a few more minutes to reason with our baby having the meltdown but it never happened.  Out the door we went with our crying, hungry baby and it took awhile before we got our happy boy back that evening.  Whew!

Something else (funny) that happened.  We stayed at a hotel with an indoor heated kiddie pool and we took some swim trunks for LB... but forgot the little Swimmers.  We had some pull up diapers and decided those were fine for a temporary fix.  Why did I not know that regular diapers blow up in water?  More specifically, stuff comes out everywhere that looks like crushed ice!  Thankfully I got him to the restroom just in time and had to clean up the mess in there rather than in or around the pool.

Sorry, no pictures of either scenario because, in the moment, we were just trying to problem solve as quickly as possible.  But I do have a pre-explosion diaper picture:]  Traveling has become quite an adventure!