Diaper Dash

So Matthew was one of a handful of babies on board, and at 13 months old, is probably the oldest one of those who don't walk, crawling is his thing, and YES, HE'S FAST!

The Incredibles" themed Diaper Dash was a crawling event for all babies on board and we knew he was a shoe-in for the win. Perfect strangers would watch him crawl (crew members too) and come up to me to ask if I was going to enter him. One guy jokingly said he was going to start a betting pool on him because he was so fast!

So come time for the event and we register, we size up the competition which was really a joke because he was so much bigger and faster than the rest.Stephen held him at the starting line and I waited at the finish line. We'd warmed him up and were holding him back because he just wanted to GO!!

But when it came time for the race to start, all the yelling and screaming really scared him and he turned around to go back to dad. I crawled about halfway to get his attention and get him to crawl to me, which he did faster than he has in a long time, crying the whole way--but know what?

HE WAS ROBBED!! the mother next to me had gone halfway up the lane too to get her babies attention and she picked her baby up before she crossed the finish line and they deemed her the winner!! (We've even got it on tape!)

It really wasn't a big deal to us, we thought it was fun and a good time. (and we knew who the REAL winner was!) There wasn't any big prize we felt robbed of, but it seemed to be a big deal to other guests. For the rest of the cruise people would call him "the crawling baby" and come up to me telling me how they'd seen that other baby cheat--and they were so upset about it! So funny!!