I am 2 weeks late on posting this, but I cannot believe I already have a 6 month old. Since the last post Anderson had his first plane ride, first trip to Texas, visiting friends and family, sitting on his own, eating solid foods, and attempting to crawl. So we have definitely been busy.
Anderson and I headed back to Texas at the first of June to meet the grandparents, great grandma and his cousins. The flight to Miami went well, but once we arrived it kind of all went downhill. The gate we were flying out of kept having a fire alarm go off and there were fire fighters in full gear there checking it out, so that was not comforting. We were also delayed due to heavy storms involving lightening. Then our gate ended up changing, but they were not able to announce it due to the fire alarm. Luckily I kept noticing people leaving so I went to ask myself. I ended up walking to the other gate with the flight crew and one of the pilots. Once we got to the next gate we found out we were delayed some more. Then, once we finally boarded the plane, while Anderson was crying his little head off since it was bedtime, we find out all flights out had been canceled due to weather. So we had to head on over to the hotel in the airport and get a room for the night. We were not able to get our luggage so I could not use any air conditioning while sleeping since I did not have any pajamas for Anderson. The next morning I had to go check in and poor little man was freezing while were waiting in line to check in. Luckily a couple let me go ahead of them so we could get done faster. We finally made it to Texas after losing a day of vacation.
Visiting all the friends and family was great but overwhelming. So many strangers at once did not go so well. And he was totally thrown off his routine and was not taking his normal nap times. Luckily he was still able to sleep through the night.
Heading back to Grenada was an even worse time then coming to Texas. I gate checked the stroller in Dallas and placed it under the big blue sign that says LEAVE STROLLERS HERE. But once I got to Miami, there was no stroller on the plane. How do you not load the stroller on the plane? I was SOOOOO mad. I had to lug him around the airport and he is not a tiny baby! They were hoping that it might make it on the next flight, but of course it did not and I did not end up getting it in Grenada until 5 days later. Also, when I arrived in Grenada, one of my bags was lost and of course it was the bag with all my clothes in it. I received that bag 4 days later.
Anderson was a pretty good traveler, he was able to sleep some and the passengers next to me liked to keep him entertained. But I do not ever want to travel with him by myself until he gets much older!
Anderson is now eating solid foods for one meal a day, and seems to love everything I give him, except peas. He has eaten mangoes, papaya, bananas, apples, pears, carrots, peas, and sweet potatoes. I hope he keeps eating like this and does not become a picky eater.
Before this post gets way too long I am going to stop writing and hopefully post again soon.
10 years ago
