I'm ready to go...I'm standing here outside your door (The Peter, Paul, and Mary version of this song, NOT the Ben Affleck version from that Armageddon flick!). I finished packing everything we'll need in the next two months. Perhaps, not EVERYTHING, but we're lucky that we feel nearly local in Arlington, so I know where there's a good Target, a scary Giant (grocery store), a better Giant, a Harris Teeter, and last but not least a Bob and Edith's Diner (actually the only time I went to Bob and Edith's, I smelled of pork products all day...I've never gone back. Shelley can vouch for this!). We are jumping out of our seats with excitement to get to see Paul. Sabrina wanted me to make him waffles this morning (we've taken a pancake break), so that tells me that she's excited too. One of the last things on my VERY full to do list this week was go get the pictures we had taken of Sabrina a few weeks ago. Here are just a few. Maybe I'll be nice this time and not post the blooper shots of her. Then again, maybe not (it all depends on my boredom level).
Any suggestions from experienced parents about how to keep a 2 year old entertained on a 5 hour flight? I would put in a movie on the laptop, but 1)I'm not sure I should take the laptop because we already have a laptop out there and 2) Would she keep the headphones on? Maybe, maybe not...I can't decide. It's going to be one LONG day; this I know for sure. But well worth it in the end. We'll miss you all! See you in August!
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I don't mean to brag, but that's a beautiful little girl!
Those are some super cute pictures! Good luck with your flight. I'm kinda wondering the same thing...how DO you keep a child occupied on a long plane ride. I've got 2, 3 hour legs of a flight in July with Bayles. What the crap am I gonna do!?
What a little model!! Those pics are so cute of Sabrina and I love that hat on her. She is so adorable! Good luck on your flight. I don't know any good tricks, but maybe you will get lucky and she will sleep! Have a great time out there!
Benadryl
A little bit of Rum works well. That's how I made it through my last flight.
We'll miss Subby and baby "guess the name." We'll also miss you and Paul, of course. I LOVE Sabrina's pictures. Do we have the cutest kids, or what? Love ya Lin!!!
Thanks for letting me tend that adorable little one on your last night here for a while. We will miss you all. I don't think Sub will be bad on a plane full of strangers. She will be sucking on her fingers for 5 hours.
Oh my goodness! Sabrina is adorable! Good luck tomorrow! I'll miss you!
Wow, darling pics. good luck tomorrow. Benadryl (you know it is one of the safest drugs out there) Also my kids love those wonder wow books. you just fill the little water thing that it comes with and they paint onto the book and "WOW" the color magically apears. this occupies my kids for a long time. but maybe you might not get this comment before you are on the plane. So good luck and can't wait to see you in August, then we can do dinner again.
Sabrina is soo cute! I LOVE these pictures! Hope you have a good summer out there! I also hope the plane ride went ok! I can barely make it through a 2 1/2 hour plane ride from here to SLC-good luck!! I will admit to having used Benadryl a time or two. :)
Those pictures are sooo cute! The ones with the hat are my favorite! 5 hour flight . . . I don't envy you! I have only done an hour and a half with Aiden. I bring loads of snacks, toys stickers, and books. Nothing you haven't thought of I'm sure. We brought a lap top once and we just didn't use the headphones. The plane was noisy enough that I don't think other people could really hear it. Even if they can, I'm sure they would rather hear a movie than a crying 2 year old, haha.
The hat!!!!! I miss her already. Who's going to think I'm great now?! My own kids certainly don't. I can't wait to hear how the flight went. Sit by the engines......the loud sound both drowns their cries and lulls them to sleep. Benadryl has the opposite effect on my kids. (Hyperactivity), so, you may take care with cdsdds's suggestion!!!!
She is so adorable. I hope the flight went okay. Tell Paul Hi for me and keep in touch over the summer.
Good luck with that flight, we decided never to fly again with the kids, until they are older. That is a hard one. Have a great summer in Washington!
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