Flight

On Tuesday morning we loaded the car and began our 12 hour trip to Washington to visit my parents. Jack was so excited that he was sleep walking the night before and we think he must have been dreaming about leaving. It took us 4 hours to get to Chicago. 94 was closed from Valparaiso to the Illinois boarder b/c of the 10 in of rain we had over the weekend and the highway was covered in water so everyone was detoured to the 80 90 toll road. The traffic was HORRIBLE and with a screaming baby it seemed to take forever. It took us about an hour and a half longer than usual. We were all very glad to get out of the car! We picked up Aunt Mary and drove to Midway. Thank you Mary for assisting us in getting everything to the airport, we couldn't have done it without you!! Here is a picture of Jack watching all the airplanes land. We had to remind him to use his indoor voice b/c he was alittle loud everytime a plane landed. This is Jack's 12th flight and it never gets old for him, but it was Wade's 1st flight...

and here is Wade and me by our flight number to document his first flight!!

Here is Jack watching Curious George. He watched a few differnt DVD's, did a little coloring, and listened to his Fisher Price MP3 player, note to parent's, the MP3 player is awsome, Jack's loves it and so do I. Great gift for any toddler. I don't think we could have paid him to take a nap but he did great without one.

Wade, thankfully, did take about an hour nap and was the happiest baby!! No issue with his ears and loved that we could hold him the whole time, unlike in the car. We landed in Seattle at 7pm and had a 2 hour drive to my parent's. We stopped for a quick dinner and when we got in the car both boys were sound asleep within minutes! So far the time change has been smooth. No one has been up before 6am!! We are so excited to finally be here and Jack hasn't left his Oma's side since we got here. He even sleeps in Oma and Papa's bedroom, a great little treat for Chris and me, too!! He sleeps in a sleeping bag on the floor which he calls his bean bag!! I'll do my best to update the blog everyday!!