Somehow we got two huge pieces of luggage, a carry-on size luggage, a pack n play, a car-seat, and a booster seat into our small Elantra, into the airport with only four useful hands, and checked into our flight. I'm sure we were really funny to watch: Me pushing a stroller piled high with whatever we could fit on it without hurting Rachel and pulling a suitcase along with it, and Brian trying to herd Michael while carrying everything that I couldn't. But we made it. The put us in the quick line, but then Brian realized that he dropped his boarding pass somewhere between baggage check and security. While he went back to get it, I got Rachel, Michael, and myself through security. Thankfully, no one had to take off shoes or belts (I'm so glad they changed that for families!) Apparently, though, since some of my food pouches that I brought for Rachel were 4.2 oz, they either had to open them or pat me down. I had them open them. So, just be warned, you flying mommys! I got all our carry-on items through security, our two kiddos, a stroller, and myself, and we still had time to wait for Brian to get through security. We grabbed breakfast and then got right onto our plane.
Michael, of course, loved EVERYTHING about riding on the airplane, but his favorite was take off, as was mine. Rachel did much better than we thought she would, thanks to the vest I made. Once she realized that she was "buckled in", she didn't fight me holding her the whole way. And she only had one big scream fest right before take-off in Denver, where we had a layover. Mostly, she just got compliments on how cute she was and how amazingly good she was on the flight. I wish I had a dollar for everyone that stopped us to comment on her hair.
Finally, we landed in Atlanta, finally made our way through the massive airport via the train, found all of our six checked items, found Greg, loaded into his minivan, and drove to Peachtree City where we got to meet Mack and Elise, and hug Lara, Julia, and Julie (who was there helping Lara with her week and a half old twins).
Since we were in Peachtree City, Greg HAD to take us on a golf cart ride to the lake. Julia and Michael enjoyed throwing sticks into the lake.
We enjoyed catching up with Greg.
We also rode the golf cart to the store to pick up a few things.
and I got to hold all this goodness:
The next day, there was more playing:
Did you notice Rachel's hand in the dye? I wish I had a video of her with these eggs. She had a blast!
Greg and Brian helped while Lara and I took pictures. Check out the color of Rachel's hand. Now look at the next picture.
Compared to Julia's hands:
And Michael's:
But at least it's only her right hand that looks like the Wicked Witch of the West, right?
Wrong. There goes her other hand.
I think this dye fest was the most fun dyeing eggs I've ever had. I couldn't stop laughing at Rachel's hands:
After all the eggs dried, Brian and I went and hid the eggs. Michael and Julia were so excited to go find them all. We made sure to tell Michael to look for the ones that weren't on the ground.
After hunting all the eggs, we did the classic Saville egg rolling. At first, Julia was on board.
But then Rachel and everyone else tried to roll "her" eggs.
And then this happened.
So Julia went inside and the boys finished out rolling the eggs, with Rachel doing her part to crack any of the ones that came her way.
These three were fun. Julia loved chasing Michael around, and Rachel loved chasing Julia. Michael loved having a fun yard and new toys to play with. We hardly saw these three while we were there because they were always off playing together.
Although we were sad to leave Lara and Greg, we were excited to take our new car on our first road trip together. It was nice having so much space!
And while driving through Georgia to Tennessee, we saw this:
Brian Reagan, anyone? We were laughing so hard.
We arrived at Ben and Jenny's just after 10 central time, and went straight to bed.
1 comment:
Funny you had problems with your food pouches. We had no problems in two airports over Christmas. They just saw we had an under two year old and that was that.
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