Day 1

We arrived safely at the beach. We were ahead of everyone else, so we had to kill some time. Amanda hung out with Noah at the pool and I took Lily down to the beach. We enjoyed Amanda's deep-dish pizza for dinner. I wish I could write that we had a quiet evening, but Lily had something to say about that.

We have Lily and Brenna sleeping in the same bedroom in twin beds. We thought this would be fun for them, but Lily had three meltdowns. We heard the two of them talking when they first went down and then Lily started screaming for us. I went down and found that she didn't want to sleep with Brenna. She wanted to sleep with us, which was not going to happen. I gave her a choice between sleeping in Noah's room and sleeping with Brenna, but she "didn't like those choices."

Several spankings later, Amanda came down to see if she could help. Amanda laid in bed with her for a few minutes and Lily seemed to settle down. Sure enough, she had another meltdown shortly thereafter. Then Amanda went down and told an "Ella Story." These are stories Amanda makes up about a girl named Ella who visits various planets. Lily seemed OK, so she came back up. However, there was then another meltdown.

We finally just let her scream for another 10-15 minutes and then she settled down. Amanda and I spent some time in the hot tub to relax, which was nice.

Today has started better from a Lily perspective. Noah has been pretty good too.