This past weekend was the 3 day ACL Music Festival. We bought tickets last year and fully anticipated taking Calvin with us for the entire thing. Babies are portable, right? Oh what naive parents-to-be we were.
Babies are portable, to a point. But Calvin's happiness and well-being, or more specifically how that would affect OUR happiness and well-being, started to weigh on my mind as the weekend approached. Friends with a slightly younger child quickly found out on Friday afternoon that a music festival was not to their baby's liking at all.
My plan was to take Calvin with me all day on Friday. I love being at the fest during the day and as the evening comes and the crowds increase for the headliners (who I am often not that interested in) I get out of dodge, so Friday would be an early day for me. Unfortunately, I did want to see the last bands on Saturday and Sunday and thought Calvin would benefit from a normal bedtime. I lined up a baby sitter and picked the most convenient time to get him home/picked up. All in all not a bad plan, except...
Calvin got a stomach virus on Thursday night.
And he proceeded to pass versions of his illness along to Chris and me. With all the being puked and pooped on it was inevitable.
I spent a very frustrated Friday afternoon at home with a sick baby. There was too much going on in the diaper area to brave an all day outing and he was at risk for dehydration which wouldn't be helped by a day in the heat and humidity. We did make it for a couple of hours in the evening and Calvin made friends and enjoyed exploring the bottom of the stroller.
Saturday I had the sitter come in the afternoon so I could be sick and Chris could go have some fun - until his symptoms appeared anyway. Sunday pretty much went as planned, but with everyone feeling a little less than their best. I've never seen Calvin drink so much water.
The end result is that we learned a few lessons on how to survive an event with baby (toddler?) in tow; we survived our first tumultuous tummy; we have very few pictures to commemorate our success.
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