Trip to Las Vegas: day zero

As we are travelling to Asia in the middle of December, I decided that it would be great to have a test run in Las Vegas. Vlad, my husband, went there climbing for Thanksgiving weekend and Nicole and I joined him.  

I wanted to test the following things:

1) Air travel with a one year old. Nicole is now mobile and extremely active. I wanted to see how she will behave on a plane and, if any concerns, address them during our next flight.
 

2)  Milk for the baby. We are planning on taking dry milk with us to Thailand. While in Vegas I wanted to see whether it is a better idea to buy milk instead of taking dry milk.

3) Co-sleeping with the baby. Since 7 month old, Nicole sleeps in her own bed in her own room. We have a short and effective routine of putting her to bed, which included leaving her in a crib and walking out of the room. It was clear that this routine would not work in a hotel room.

4)  Ergo baby. I used it with Nicole when she was small. Now I occasionally use it as well. But she is bigger and as I said is very active. Needed to see if I would survive carrying her all day.

5)  See if there are any other issues that might come up that I am not aware of.

 

 

 

We left Seattle on Thanksgiving day at around 7 pm. It was a short 2 hour flight to Las Vega. I would say it went okay. Normally Nicole goes to bed at 7:30 pm, so she was fussy. She did behave fine during boarding but because it took too long for us to take off, she became restless and super fussy and wanted her milk. She even cried for a couple of minutes. It turned out she needed twice as much milk as she would normally drink (around 12 ounce for a short flight). We ran out of milk shortly before the take off.

Once the airplane started moving and they deemed the lights, Nicole calmed down, accepted a cookie and … I am not sure if she slept or just behaved well. I guess, it was all good.

 

By the time we arrived to the hotel, Nicole was sleepy and ready to go to the bed. We all were exhausted and fell asleep quickly.

Next day I planned on going to rock climb with the guys. That meant that Nicole would spend a day in a day care.