trip part 1

sooooo.....

it's been a while since i have blogged. i have been trying the past few days to upload different videos of the little man with no success, so i will just post some pics.

this past week has brought our family to kansas. it's been great to be in a new environment and seek out new adventures. not to mention that i dont have to clean the house or make big meals. can't complain about that.

let me tell you about erik and me and our day of travel over here. it was supposed to go smooth sailing, a drive to the airport with our friends, a nonstop flight, linds would pick us up and we would be on our way. That is NOT how the day went. Luckily I must have had some major stars aligning because the whole day I had major calm mommy emotions that helped me stay in a good frame of mind and take it all in stride. Yes, i am patting myself on the back.

here were the events of the day........

1. get to the airport safe and sound and on time--check-no problem there

2. get through security-check

3. get to the gate to realize the flight has been delayed two hours-gulp, that sucks but nothing i can't handle.

4. 45 minutes later the flight is delayed an extra two hours on top of that. YIKES, go to the counter ask to be put on another carriers flight. told no........give the "i am traveling with a young child, i only have so many diapers, etc." spiel and still told no. all they could tell me was that they would let me get into my checked baggage to get more if i needed them. good thing i put extra in there cause my plan was to buy diapers once we got to kansas.

5. after spending over 50 bucks for food and things for the little man and myself over the 6 hours we waited just to board. we were doing well. little man was loving walking around, being strolled around and watching people. FINALLY we board.....and find out that it wasn't weather but the plane had broke and needed fixing before we could leave.

6. a three hour flight, erik does great........sleeps, wiggles in my lap, plays prince charming with surrounding passengers.

7. last 45 minutes of the flight 2 MAJOR things happen

1- erik blows out his diaper to the poin the only thing i can put back on him is his tee shirt. luckily his blanket remained unscathed. we were landing in below freezing weather mind you. i couldn't even put his socks back on him. the flight attendant didnt want to let me in the bathroom because of turbulance but i am pretty sure that she would not want to clean up that nastiness off her upholstered seats. of course i dont have a change of clothes on me, he never blows out anymore. after we landed i changed him into pj's from our suitcase.

2. withing ten minutes of that escapade my whole section of the plane start looking at each other beacuse we all started to smell smoke. now let me tell you, i don't easily panic. i don't easily freak out and actually tend to get more calm in crisis mode. a gift i think and also some ingrained training from my days as a crisis response worker in a call center that dealt with mentally ill people, suicide callers, etc. in that moment i remained calm on the outside, held erik a little tighter, and started thinking about what would happen to lindsay if we both passed away. I said a prayer and hoped that we could make a good landing. Turns out the flight attendants were not worried and didn't do much. The only thing they thought it was was that someone had lit a match in the plane but found no evidence. great.......................we did land safely and i am now very worried to fly back on that airline.

thumbs down for midwest airlines!

on a better note the moon fam is livin it up in kansas and erik loved the science museum we went to yesterday. pictures of that to follow soon.

(first haircut-done by handsome daddy)

*pics in this post are random from recent weeks

News Flash!

birthday bash!

oh we celebrated in style for the little man's special day. he even took it upon himself to disregard his naps.........who needs'em when its your birthday right? well considering he did do fantastic. Lindsay and i didn't want to go all and spend a bunch of money for his first birthday knowing that he won't remember it, but we still wanted to make the day known.

so instead i decided to have a themed day. i dressed him in his airplane sweater that grandpa chuck and grandma noni sent to him for christmas. we read plane books all day at our usual reading times.

then for dinner he got a plane cake all to himself. don't look too closely......i am not a baker. baking is too detailed and scientific, i like cooking where you can pretty much change anything and it wont ruin it.
oh and i forgot to tell you that we made (yes, lindsay is the artist of our family so he both cut the cake and drew the plane for the crown) him a special birthday crown with supplies on hand.........which lasted about a half a second. and the cake was devoured in less than that i think.

i tried to upload the video we took of him getting into the cake, but it is too big of a file and would have taken all day, so pictures will have to suffice. he loved throwing it, double fisting it into his mouth, and mashing it in his chubby little fingers, oh he loved it! he was even feeding it to lindsay and i. boomer had a hay day as well.mmmmm cake, you want some?

oh our little man and us as well had a grand day. it was so fun! nothing beats fun times with the fam. i haven't taken erik in his for his one year appointment yet, but he was in the doctor last week for his bronchitis and he is in the 41% for his weight and i didn't catch the height, although he is usually above average. see i am telling you he is not as chubby as you think. everyone always talks about how he is big for his age. he is tall for sure, but he is not fat, although if you saw how well he eats- i guess you would think he is overweight.

he is our little star