The Journey of James Weston

Sunday, January 8th, 2023 Today was Marvel Day at Sea! 🦸🏻‍♂️🦹🏼‍♀️🦸🏿What's funny is Dad and Mom only thought there were maybe 8 Marvel characters. 🤷🏻‍♀️ Come to find out there are like hundreds. 🤣 James and Mom sported their new Marvel t-shirts courtesy of Aunt Robin. James' said, "The Incredible James" and Mom's said, MOM with the Captain America shield as the "O". All done in metallics with her cricut. Amazing! ✨ Dad was wearing his "Marvelous FaTHOR" shirt he got for Father's Day. So we fit right in on the ship! Some people were in full costume and sometimes it was hard to tell who was an actual Disney character and who was a passenger. 🤣 We started the morning off with the buffet breakfast on Deck 11 which gave James a great view of the ocean. 🍳 🥞 He is really getting his vocabulary down, so we played several games of "Point to the tree or point to the ocean". He knows words that we didn't even teach him. James ...

Saturday, January 7th, 2023 So Mom started the day off with only 2 hours of sleep, but we were packed and ready to go! Remember only 6 days ago we were pulling another all nighter in the ER?! Do Moms ever "catch up" on sleep? We needed to leave by 7am in order to allow enough time for traffic to Miami. We were supposed to arrive around 1:30pm. Packing the car takes about an hour and this time Dad had a challenge of fitting 3 suitcases with the oxygen concentrator and stroller into our tiny SUV. It was definitely a game of Tetris! We left James in his pajamas as he was still sleeping and would change him once we got to the port. Of course as soon as we got in the car, he woke up! We had a very long drive to Miami. Most people get there the day before and stay in a hotel to make sure that they don't miss the ship. We would have definitely done that if we were flying but since we were in the same state we figured we could make it work. We arrived on time and dropped off our ...