Sunday, December 30, 2007
Happy Almost New Year!!! And Happy Almost Birthday to Trisha!
We returned late Friday night from a wonderful visit with Granddad and Sittie and the North Carolina Hurt-Rahn clan. It was our first visit with the entire family since Christi and family moved this past summer, which made the visit all the more special.
Carson thoroughly enjoyed the reunion with his two cousins. Calder and Carson are almost exactly one year apart in age, so a little conflict between the two at times was expected. Lets say they developed a love/hate relationship, they both loved each other very much until the other one took one of the toys away...then the temporary 'hate' kicked in. This is a pattern that will repeat itself over the next few years I suspect. Clearly the two older cousins impressed Carson with all of their big boy skills. Calder definitely intrigued Carson, but Griffin became his leader. Carson just locked his eyes on Griffin and followed him around for days on end. Griffin really is a great guy with a youngster like Carson, we were thrilled to see them all hanging out.
Uncle Bob, Virginia, Emma, and Louisa all came up from DC for a visit on the Sunday before Xmas. It was great to see them and for Carson to meet Virginia, Emma, and Lousia for the first time. We look forward to seeing them again in April.
One of my greatest fears about parenthood has always been flying with a young child. I never wanted to be that couple that had the terror child on the plane. On the way east, Carson was a champ. He slept the first and last 30-45 minutes of the trip and then was easily entertained in between. On the way back, we left Philly about an hour late (we left at 7PM east coast time) and then had to make it through a 5 1/2 hour flight. Carson was super energized for the first two hours of the flight. He kept playing the parent switching game and bouncing back and forth between us. Finally, right after Trish said to get out the movie because he was never going to sleep, he zonked out. Now this was a positive development, but since Carson is still a lap child and we did not buy him a seat, we realized how truly large this chunky guy is. He sprawled right out on my lap with his feet hanging out into the aisle and even invaded Trish's space in the middle. Carson was comfortable at least as he slept the rest of the flight away. With about an hour left in the flight, she turned to me and said, "We are buying his a seat next time." Well, at least he did not cry and scream. All in all, he has done really well on two cross country flights now.
We were sad to leave the east coast folks, but took heart in the fact that we will see them shortly in April to celebrate Granddad's birthday. Make sure that you check out the new pics in the flickr account. I finally updated some of them.
We returned late Friday night from a wonderful visit with Granddad and Sittie and the North Carolina Hurt-Rahn clan. It was our first visit with the entire family since Christi and family moved this past summer, which made the visit all the more special.
Carson thoroughly enjoyed the reunion with his two cousins. Calder and Carson are almost exactly one year apart in age, so a little conflict between the two at times was expected. Lets say they developed a love/hate relationship, they both loved each other very much until the other one took one of the toys away...then the temporary 'hate' kicked in. This is a pattern that will repeat itself over the next few years I suspect. Clearly the two older cousins impressed Carson with all of their big boy skills. Calder definitely intrigued Carson, but Griffin became his leader. Carson just locked his eyes on Griffin and followed him around for days on end. Griffin really is a great guy with a youngster like Carson, we were thrilled to see them all hanging out.
Uncle Bob, Virginia, Emma, and Louisa all came up from DC for a visit on the Sunday before Xmas. It was great to see them and for Carson to meet Virginia, Emma, and Lousia for the first time. We look forward to seeing them again in April.
One of my greatest fears about parenthood has always been flying with a young child. I never wanted to be that couple that had the terror child on the plane. On the way east, Carson was a champ. He slept the first and last 30-45 minutes of the trip and then was easily entertained in between. On the way back, we left Philly about an hour late (we left at 7PM east coast time) and then had to make it through a 5 1/2 hour flight. Carson was super energized for the first two hours of the flight. He kept playing the parent switching game and bouncing back and forth between us. Finally, right after Trish said to get out the movie because he was never going to sleep, he zonked out. Now this was a positive development, but since Carson is still a lap child and we did not buy him a seat, we realized how truly large this chunky guy is. He sprawled right out on my lap with his feet hanging out into the aisle and even invaded Trish's space in the middle. Carson was comfortable at least as he slept the rest of the flight away. With about an hour left in the flight, she turned to me and said, "We are buying his a seat next time." Well, at least he did not cry and scream. All in all, he has done really well on two cross country flights now.
We were sad to leave the east coast folks, but took heart in the fact that we will see them shortly in April to celebrate Granddad's birthday. Make sure that you check out the new pics in the flickr account. I finally updated some of them.
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