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Thursday, September 8, 2011

Airplane and Traveling

Well we're off! It's really against all my Mommy instincts to wake up Munchkin Girl at 5:30am and pull her out of bed, but that's exactly what I did. And she was thrilled! All went well until the plane took off. She was cuddling her baby when the head suddenly fell off. She started SCREAMING! I don't blame her. I imagine it's scary when your treasured dollie is decaptitated. The problem was that it rolled to the lady behind us and she wasn't too keen on getting it for her, especially since there was turbulence and she had to reach down and feel around and try to find the doll head. In the meantime, Munchkin Girl couldn't stop crying and wouldn't listen to reason at all. I tried to assure her that it was fine, but she was seriously terrified.

The lady finally sucked it up and bent over and found the doll and that crisis was over. Changing planes went fine and thank goodness for portable DVD players! The travel after that was great with Munchkin Girl, but my parents are with us since we're visiting my brother and they sometimes they remind me a lot of the Seinfelds. Our bags were coming off at baggage claim and my Mom pulled her bag down. The handle wouldn't come up and she started panicking. And I mean panicking.

"My bag is broken. It's broken! It won't work." She was yanking it with all her strength, over and over again and sure enough, nothing was happening. I'm not sure why it was a reason to panic, but she's my Mom. I help her, that's what I do. I quickly realized that the levers were both down so the handle was simply locked in place. She doesn't travel much, but still. Mrs. Seinfeld needs to calm down.

We did get to see the beach after we arrived and Munchkin Girl loved every second.

She collected shells, ran out into the surf and giggled, and even buried her legs in the sand. We found a bunch of shells in one place.

"Jackpot!" I said.

Munchkin Girl laughed and kept collecing an entire bucket-full of shells. Later, my Dad came over and said, "Watcha got there? What are you collecting?"

"We're looking for Jackpots Papa! Here's a Jackpot for you!" she replied and handed him a seashell.

Then, when I was putting her to bed and we were gathering up all her stuff, she said, "Mommy, let's not take Lucy to bed. Her head might fall off."
Smart kid. It's going to be a fun weekend.

Monday, September 5, 2011

Still working

Today (Labor Day) is Day three of being home alone with kiddos. Hubby is gone again for the next 24 hour shift. He does come home when there's no surgery happening, but it usually isn't long before his pager goes off again. I have the day off and I went to a brunch this morning with the kids, and since today is a Holiday for most people, I was yet again the only person there without a spouse.

I'm very excited though because this weekend I am taking Munchkin Girl to Charleston to visit my brother! Hubby couldn't get the time off so he's staying home with Little Buddy! Hooray!! Ever since Little Buddy was born, I feel like I end up catering to his every need. First, it was breastfeeding. I was the only one who could do it. Then he decided he didn't want anyone else so he was always glued to my hip. Thus, I am super excited to spend some quality time with just Munchkin Girl! So, on my schedule for today:

1. Start packing for my trip
2. Act as running coach for Hubby's barefoot running study

Number 2 probably needs slightly more explanation. Hubby is doing an 8 week trial on barefoot running. He has about 30 people participating and he is measuring to see if their foot strength changes over 8 weeks. Hopefully if all goes well his research will be published. At 6am, 12 noon, and 6pm someone has to go guide the paricipants through the study. I've been filling in here and there when he can't find anyone else. Usually it's Hubby who does all of them, but today is working so it's up to me. I, Katie, who has never run barefoot and didn't even run high school track, is going to meet a bunch of people at the park, with my whistle and stopwatch. I'm a little confused about what they're doing, something about Run for 60, rest for 60, run for 50, rest for 50, etc and on down and then back up. I have it written down. I'm sure it'll be fine...

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Traveling with the Kids for the Austin Ironman

In October we are going to travel to Austin so that Hubby can do the Ironman. Well, okay, it's really the half-Ironman but it's still 70.3 miles. Originally I didn't really want him to spend time training for such an insane race, but it hasn't been that bad and he really enjoys it. My best friend lives in Austin and I have always wanted to take the kids to visit her, so this is a great excuse. The only problem is that she lives in a 3 bedroom house with her little girl and husband so it's going to be a little cramped when we stay with them. I don't know if it's only my kids, but we have such a hard time sleeping in the same room with them on vacation. In fact, we haven't tried it in a long time because we really can't wrap our minds around the logistics of it. I mean, do you go to bed with them at 8:00? Or do you sneak in later after they went to sleep and hope they don't wake up? Plus, in the morning when they wake up at 6:00 like they usually do, don't they see that you're in the same room and want to get up and play? Normally at home they will roll around in their beds for awhile before they make any noise. (We know this because have fantastic video monitors, which I highly recommend!)

However, it appears we aren't going to have a choice this time. I did some research and found what looks like a good travel bed on http://www.onestepahead.com/. I have bought stuff from this website before and liked everything. The reason I liked this one is because it has a bag that can be rolled through the airport. The other beds I found had bags, but they weren't on wheels and didn't look very easy to use. We'll see how it goes sleeping in the same room with our 3 year old. I figure that's better than sleeping with the one year old because at least with her we can tell her she has be lay still for awhile.

So, we'll see how this goes. Fingers crossed!!

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