The Oistad Family: Vegas Baby!

As a final hurrah to my maternity leave, we headed down to Vegas for a week of fun with my parents! It was sunny, albeit a little chilly. However, it was a nice change considering we are in freezing wind/snow storms in AK right now. Both Noah and Callison did really really well on the plane and in the airport both ways which was awesome!! Noah played with his V-Reader and coloring books and Callie slept almost the entire flight (except for when she woke up to have a smiling contest with us).

At first I was worried there wouldn't be enough kid activities in Vegas, but Noah had a blast! His favs included the lights on the strip, the tunnels (parking garages and bridges), Bellagio fountains, Venetian gondola ride, M&M store, the sports cars people could win in the casinos, monorail (aka train), Children’s discovery museum, dolphin habitat, shark reef, park and going to dim sum! Callie slept most of the trip as 2 month olds do, but we showed her all the lights and sights too! When she was awake, she loved all the lights and action of Vegas!

My parents generously offered to watch the kiddos several evenings so Wes and I could check out the Vegas night scene. It was fun to have a few date nights together (our first date since Callie was born)! We had dinner with Kalei’s bro, Stuart, one night and then went to a dance club. We also saw a show and had several nice dinners out. We did go to “Coyote Ugly” in the NYNY casino but we didn’t like it. The dancing girls just stood on the bar, yelled at the 20-something guys and said rude things to them. We left and found a nice quiet bar where we could actually talk and hear each other. We are officially old.

All in all, it was a nice getaway, our first as a family of four!

Yummy Dim Sum

Noah LOVED this car exhibit at the Children's Discovery Museum! He spent a good 40 minutes "fixing" the car! Every time we tried to show him something else, he would break away into a sprint back to the "red car!"

Our little mechanic

Noah loved all the hands-on exhibits at the museum

Gong Gong and Noah

Dad and Noah racing cars at Circus Circus

Can you tell our boy loves cars?

Noah was excited to point out all the big flashy McDonald's signs in Vegas

Sweet Callie girl

Noah loved the flashy sports cars in the casinos

We took our little man on a gondola ride in the Venetian Canal. He loved going under all the tunnels!

First family vacation as a foursome!

I gave Noah a dollar to place on the platform. Instead of setting it down with the other bills, he walked right up to the statue and placed the dollar in his hand. Then the statue gave Noah a little wink. Too funny!