First plane ride!

We need to get this boy a frequent flier number! Hunter had his first plane ride when we went to Indy over the 4th of July. My birthday is July 5th so we usually like to take a long weekend with the Independence Day holiday being so close and a corporate holiday for Dell.

It wouldn't be a trip that I took without any travel stories and this time did not disappoint...

We had an early morning flight on July 1st - 7:10 am. We started off a little late but not too bad....it just takes us so much longer to get out of the house these days! We got to the airport and it was PACKED. When we were checking in at the kiosk I was not able to check in electronically and had to wait to speak to an agent. Ugh...now I was starting to get a little nervous. We stood in line for quite a while and thankfully a gentleman in front of us let us go ahead of him. We were at the check-in counter for at least 20 minutes as the agent tried to get me cleared - apparently this was some security precaution that we got caught up in. By this time we had less than 10 minutes before our plane took off. This agent actually left her position at the counter and walked us through security to make sure we got on the plane. She was by far the nicest American Airlines employee that I have EVER encountered. Sooo, along with the baby we have all sorts of extra stuff that we are traveling with now...a carry-on (with a change of clothes for all 3 of us...I have learned my lesson...), the diaper bag, a stroller, and a big car seat travel bag. We're rushing along, trying to get our laptops out, shoes off, bags pushed through the x-ray machine and then comes the car seat bag....the openings on these x-ray machines are deceivingly small. :) I seriously looked like Greg Focker trying to push this thing through the x-ray machine. It did go through but they had to call someone to help get it out of the other side. AJ thinks we broke it because he looked back and all of the people in line behind us were stopped and shooting daggers through the back of our heads with their eyes. Oh well, we got through okay and finally made the flight. We were the last two on and got separted but we were only flying to DFW so it was okay.

Here is a pic on our layover -



Hunter was a sweet little angel on all of our flights. I was really worried about the air pressure changes hurting his little ears but we didn't have any problems with that at all. I tried to nurse him whenever we were going up or down but a couple of times he was sleeping hard so I put the pacifier in his mouth and that seemed to work.

Mom picked us up at the airport and of course was super excited to see Hunter. I suppose she was excited to see us also. :) The last time she saw him was when he was two weeks old. When we were waiting for our bags the man who was next to us came up to me and said "I don't think you are going to get your baby back, ma'am".


We had a great few days in Indy. We got to see Grandma and Grandpa Hunter who came up with my uncles Bill and Steve to visit us on Friday. Here is a cute pic of the 3 of them -


Whitney and Brian threw a very nice "Meet the Baby" party for him on Sunday. We had a house full of family and friends who stopped by to meet Hunter. It was so nice to see everyone and it was a great party. Here he is all partied out -



I love the pic of Mom and Brad holding him because we have a similar pic from when they were here and he weighed, what, 5.5 lbs and now look at him! He is just getting so big so fast!

We had a very nice trip and it was nice to get out of the 105 degree heat for a few days. We laid over in Dallas again on the way home and when we got off of the plane in Austin we were waiting outside of the plane for our stroller and carseat that we gate checked and they never showed up. I was not a happy camper...this was a brand new stroller that I just bought right before our trip and a carseat that we need to have to get the baby home from the airport...on top of that, how do you lose something that was put right by the plane as we were getting on??? So, down we go to the lost luggage counter, where we have had the pleasure of spending time before, and we walk in and the super nice lady from our first flight that walked us through security was working at the counter! They gave us a loaner car seat to use and they delivered both the carseat and stroller around 2am that morning so all is well. I am writing a letter to American about this lady. It isn't very often that you encounter someone so helpful in the airline industry these days...and she was nice to boot!

Hunter has finally getting back into his sleep pattern. It has taken a few days to get readjusted but it looks like we're back on track. We have a big week this week including 3 month pictures tomorrow!