One Morning in Maine...

Nora woke up. And we all had a wonderful, relatively relaxing, vacation at Brightwater! We were very lucky to not hit any traffic at all (on a holiday weekend! Unheard of...), and we even got to stop at Aunt Abby's weekday apartment in Portland for supper on the way up. The weather was lovely most of the time, and we were able to enjoy lots of good food at the cabin as well as at Sarah's Cafe and Red's Eats, walks around the Boulevard, a day of sightseeing in Boothbay and even a sunny day at the beach. Key to the vacation avec babe was Nora's "pod," a portable foldup bed with a sunshade and zip up mosquito net. We set it up downstairs at Brightwater, and she took all her daytime naps in it. It was nice to have a bug-free place to put her, and she loves the toys dangling overhead. Mobiles and other interesting things to look at overhead are Nora's favorite things in the world right now... We even brought it to the beach so she'd have a shady spot to nap there!



Nora always likes having her diaper changed and being swaddled for a nap, even on the road:



She slept through a train right past our picnic table in Wiscasset: