Are kids welcomed?
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I think some of the hotels have daycare/babysitting facilities, but personally I'd rather not leave my little ones in the company of strangers in a strange city. Maybe when they're a little older, but not as babies/toddlers.
I have no idea what we're going to do with our little ones. I don't want to bring them with, they would be way too much work and I wouldn't get to socialize & get OUT at all. I'd be stuck taking care of them all day, same as I am here. Why go to LAS, pay for a hotel, to do the same thing I do here day in day out. I'm hoping I can convince my mom that they're really not all that much work to take care of....... (yeah, right, they're more work than one can possibly imagine) and maybe she'll come to our house and watch them. It's not that I don't love my kids, but it really would be a lot of work & hassle to have them in Vegas, and they're too young to get anything out of it. If they were older and could take in a show, or see the Star Trek exhibit, or take anything away from the experience, I'd do it, but they're just babies.
So I'll just have to hope that the baby gets over his colic & nightly screaming sessions, and that the toddler gets over his tantrums so Grandma will stay with them for a few days!
It is a few months away, so I hold out hope that at least the colic will have passed by then.
I have no idea what we're going to do with our little ones. I don't want to bring them with, they would be way too much work and I wouldn't get to socialize & get OUT at all. I'd be stuck taking care of them all day, same as I am here. Why go to LAS, pay for a hotel, to do the same thing I do here day in day out. I'm hoping I can convince my mom that they're really not all that much work to take care of....... (yeah, right, they're more work than one can possibly imagine) and maybe she'll come to our house and watch them. It's not that I don't love my kids, but it really would be a lot of work & hassle to have them in Vegas, and they're too young to get anything out of it. If they were older and could take in a show, or see the Star Trek exhibit, or take anything away from the experience, I'd do it, but they're just babies.
So I'll just have to hope that the baby gets over his colic & nightly screaming sessions, and that the toddler gets over his tantrums so Grandma will stay with them for a few days!
ready2fly
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Kinda what I thought.
IF my mother is in good/better health by then (she had a NASTY fall two days after Brendan was born...requiring two surgeries and MONTHS of rehab), then MAYBE she'll watch him...or maybe my Mother-in-law might do it (she's been AWESOME watching him for half a day), so there's still hope.
You're right though - taking care of an infant pretty much by yourself (both of us have done so - Me when she goes to California on business (4 times) and her when I'm flying folks to and fro), and there's pretty much NO way to have a social life.
I'd really like this to be a sort of break for us for a weekend. Is that a horrible thing to say as a new parent??
IF my mother is in good/better health by then (she had a NASTY fall two days after Brendan was born...requiring two surgeries and MONTHS of rehab), then MAYBE she'll watch him...or maybe my Mother-in-law might do it (she's been AWESOME watching him for half a day), so there's still hope.
You're right though - taking care of an infant pretty much by yourself (both of us have done so - Me when she goes to California on business (4 times) and her when I'm flying folks to and fro), and there's pretty much NO way to have a social life.
I'd really like this to be a sort of break for us for a weekend. Is that a horrible thing to say as a new parent??
Oh, and leaving the baby with a grandparent for the first time is tough, but not as bad as you think.
I left our older one with Grandma for the first time when he was 8 months. We went on an anniversary trip to the lodge in the Boundary Waters where we went for our honeymoon, and left baby at my parents farm. I thought about him a lot, but I told myself that I survived babyhood with these people (my parents) and he would be fine there for a week. I 'talked' to him on the phone a few times, and he'd hear me and babble back at me. Mom said he was a bit 'sad', but everyone involved did just fine with the separation! Since then I've left him to go to NJC last year, and to go to my old roommate's wedding in Dallas. Each time went better and easier than the last. I haven't left the new baby yet, he's been to small and needy. I'd hate to burden someone else with his high-needs self yet. He'll grow out of it soon enough.
Child-free vacations rock!
I left our older one with Grandma for the first time when he was 8 months. We went on an anniversary trip to the lodge in the Boundary Waters where we went for our honeymoon, and left baby at my parents farm. I thought about him a lot, but I told myself that I survived babyhood with these people (my parents) and he would be fine there for a week. I 'talked' to him on the phone a few times, and he'd hear me and babble back at me. Mom said he was a bit 'sad', but everyone involved did just fine with the separation! Since then I've left him to go to NJC last year, and to go to my old roommate's wedding in Dallas. Each time went better and easier than the last. I haven't left the new baby yet, he's been to small and needy. I'd hate to burden someone else with his high-needs self yet. He'll grow out of it soon enough.
Child-free vacations rock!
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I'd really like this to be a sort of break for us for a weekend. Is that a horrible thing to say as a new parent??
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NO!
I think everyone needs a certain amount of child-free time. It helps everyone. It teaches the baby that it's okay to be taken care of by someone other than Mommy & Daddy, and it gives parents a bit of reconnect time. My kids are the center of my (very small) world, but a little bit of time away is essential, and by no means selfish!
I'd really like this to be a sort of break for us for a weekend. Is that a horrible thing to say as a new parent??
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NO!
I think everyone needs a certain amount of child-free time. It helps everyone. It teaches the baby that it's okay to be taken care of by someone other than Mommy & Daddy, and it gives parents a bit of reconnect time. My kids are the center of my (very small) world, but a little bit of time away is essential, and by no means selfish!
My kids were older 6 & 3 when we went last year, but what we did was send them a photo with the lovely sprint phone anytime we saw something they (boys) would think was cool. Harley Davidson Cafe, thte lion at MGM, etc.... We could ad a little voice to it as well. They kept bugging Grandma to check her email. It was indeed a good break for all.
tonyw
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I'd really like this to be a sort of break for us for a weekend. Is that a horrible thing to say as a new parent??
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No. I was just at a trade show, and one of the people I was talking to is a mother of two twin boys that were a year old. She said it was so nice to be able to go back to her hotel room, turn on the TV, and relax without having to worry about a couple of boys screaming "mommy, mommy."
I'd really like this to be a sort of break for us for a weekend. Is that a horrible thing to say as a new parent??
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No. I was just at a trade show, and one of the people I was talking to is a mother of two twin boys that were a year old. She said it was so nice to be able to go back to her hotel room, turn on the TV, and relax without having to worry about a couple of boys screaming "mommy, mommy."
tonyw
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Babies, puppies, kittens.....total chick magnet.
Tell ya what, fellas. It's far more effective to talk about your dog or your cat than it is to talk about how you're a pilot if you want to impress women.
Tell 'em you're a pilot, and they're gonna start bitching about all the stuff that went wrong on their last trip from hell.
Tell 'em about your dog or your cat, and they're all like, awww, how cute. What kind of dog is he?
Tell ya what, fellas. It's far more effective to talk about your dog or your cat than it is to talk about how you're a pilot if you want to impress women.
Tell 'em you're a pilot, and they're gonna start bitching about all the stuff that went wrong on their last trip from hell.
Tell 'em about your dog or your cat, and they're all like, awww, how cute. What kind of dog is he?
mpenguin1
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Here is a good example as to why kids should be left at home.
http://www.killsometime.com/Video/video.asp?video=Use-Condoms
http://www.killsometime.com/Video/video.asp?video=Use-Condoms
CaptainChris87
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Here is a good example as to why kids should be left at home.
http://www.killsometime.com/Video/video.asp?video=Use-Condoms
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so the moral is? use za zoo??
but on a serious note whats the youngest age allowed to attend the the after-party events after the JC network arrangement? 18? 21?
Here is a good example as to why kids should be left at home.
http://www.killsometime.com/Video/video.asp?video=Use-Condoms
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so the moral is? use za zoo??
but on a serious note whats the youngest age allowed to attend the the after-party events after the JC network arrangement? 18? 21?
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but on a serious note whats the youngest age allowed to attend the the after-party events after the JC network arrangement? 18? 21?
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Vegas baby, I believe you gots to be 21 unless you're planning on heading up the strip club posse
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but on a serious note whats the youngest age allowed to attend the the after-party events after the JC network arrangement? 18? 21?
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Vegas baby, I believe you gots to be 21 unless you're planning on heading up the strip club posse
