Megan LOVES airplanes - this made flying a TON easier and even fun at times. She's been loving airplanes for a long long time and recently she's been interested in the airport since we tell her that's where Grandma and Grandpa go when they leave, and that's how you fly to NY, and that's where the planes go... Before the trip we picked up a couple books for her, her favorite was Airport by Byron Barton
So Megan was super excited about going to the airport! And when we got to our gate she just wanted to stand at the window and look at everything and of course she wanted to know what everything was and what it was doing. She practically ran onto the plane, I literally had to hold her back while they scanned our tickets! She even had no problem staying in her seat on that first flight. She was mostly standing / kneeling to see out the window though :-)
We didn't bring carseats because my parents have them already, so we used something called the CARES harness on the plane. It was ok, I think Megan had trouble getting comfortable with it but it at least kept her in her seat (she could unbuckle the seatbelt easily and did all.the.time). We were in a small plane so it was Megan at the window, Russ next to her, then the aisle, then me with Ryan on my lap. For each flight (2 up and 2 back) I had someone next to me, but luckily on each leg it was someone really nice and understanding.
The flights there went pretty well, before the planes took off was a little stressful with both kids but once the plane starting moving Megan was enthralled and Ryan was usually nursing :-) Ryan mostly nursed and slept and "talked" to the passangers around us. Megan mostly looked out her window or watching Word World on the portable DVD player we brought. On the second leg on our decent into Albany, Megan could see out her window and was talking up a storm "I see New York" "I see little cars" "I see all the cars in New York". And as we hit some turbulance on the decent I looked over and Megan's sitting going "weeeeee" and "up and down" and I went from feeling sick to laughing!
We had a great visit, it was great seeing all my family and introducing everyone to Ryan. He was quite a ham his first visit with Grammy too, he even gave her a great big laugh! He also learned to roll from his back to his tummy the second day we were there and soon was rolling everytime he was on his back.
Amy and Cameron spend Tues - Thurs at Mom and Dad's so we got lots of great time with them. Megan and Cameron still aren't to the playing with each other stage but they definitly seemed more interested in each other and what toys the other one had :-)
Unlce Jay was the star of the trip, we heard lots of "Uncle Jay chase Megan", "Wheels on the bus go round and round, Uncle Jay", Uncle Jay even put Megan to bed the night Russ and went out to a movie!
Megan slept downstairs in the den, Mom and Dad's crib was moved down there. She would wake up early in the morning and when Russ or I came down to try and get her back to bed she would just want to snuggle on the couch in the den. It was the sweetest thing, she would say "Daddy snuggle me" or "Mommy snuggle me", who can resist that? Even at 5am it was still so sweet!
Saturday was Grandpa's memorial service. I was so glad we were all there with everyone. Megan was so sweet in the car on the way to the church she said "I love papa, I love grammy" and "Papa loves Megan". We told her we were going to church to say bye bye to Papa, so during the service she kept talking about Papa, like "I want to see Papa", "Megan love Papa" It was very sweet and brought tears to my eyes.
We got back to Austin late on Sunday night, Megan stayed awake until the plane was taxi-ing to our gate!
