Well, we officially took E on his first
flight, and all three of us are alive.
So I call that successful. Yes,
he had a major blowout as soon as the airplane took off, yes he peed all over
his daddy, yes we had to change outfits 2x in a 1 hour flight, and yes my
flip-flop broke so I made my hubby take his socks off and let me wear them
through the airport. But hey, we
survived.''
So our first flight was a little last
minute. And by last minute I mean we
booked the flight 3.5 hours before we had to leave for the airport. It was an emergency trip to Kansas to see
Joe's grandmother who is in the hospital and is very near and dear to our
hearts. We decided we wanted to go see
her, booked the flight, and off to packing we went.
We had planned our first flight to be 5
days later to Seattle and we had little different travel plans, so we weren't
prepared for traveling with a lap baby.
So off to Buy Buy Baby, E, the pup, and I went. First up on the shopping list: carseat travel
bag. I looked at a few different options
and landed on the Brico because it A) had wheels B) could be worn as a backpack
and C) because it fit our carseat now and will fit future carseats even when we
purchase a front-facing carseat. The
only thing I did not love is that they did not have a matching stroller bag and
the bag was gray. However, I actually
love the gray now because it doesn't show dirt as much as black bags after
traveling through the checked luggage process.
Next up, stroller storage bag. After little convincing from the nice man at
Buy Buy Baby, I settled on this stroller storage bag. However, we got home, the stroller didn't
fit, so we ditched the plan to bring the stroller and we decided to do
without. (Side note: We did discover
that the stroller will fit, Baby Jogger City Select, BUT you have to take off the back wheels as well
as the carseat attachment and put it in the bag separately. However, it will all fit in there separated.)
While planning I did a lot of research
on the best way to carry him through, and we landed on this. And let me tell you it was a breeze compared
to what I was expecting. Besides TSA insisting on testing my bottled
breastmilk, it was easy! We checked the stroller and our luggage at the front
(This was hard for us as we are usually carry-on people), I wore E in my front
pack, I wore the diaper bag as a backpack, my husband wore my backpack, and he
carried his briefcase. Made it through
security, got Chick-fil-a of course, then we boarded the airplane. Besides the blowouts, diaper changes, and
outfit changes, he was a peach! :) We had an extra seat next to us on the way
just because people avoid sitting next to babies like the plague, so we had good
practice to figure things out before we had an actual human taking up that seat
next to us on the way home. All worked
out well. We survived and we will be
doing it again in less than 48 hours.
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