Monday, May 10, 2010

Eating our Words

We just returned from a long weekend in Houston. After flying with Grayson last summer to North Carolina, we came back promising not to fly with him again until he was much, much older. While I wouldn't consider 20 months much older, we decided to bite the bullet and fly instead of drive so we could spend more time with family.

This time around we had a secret weapon: Elmo DVDs! Again, we had to eat our words that we wouldn't plop Grayson in front of a portable DVD player when traveling, but that's exactly what we did and it kept him still the better part of the flight.

It was fun to watch Grayson take in the planes, baggage carts, 30,000-foot view and much more. He was busy observing it all and enjoyed making new friends at every turn.

This is probably the last time we'll get away with flying and not buying Gray his own seat and I must say I'm glad we did it. An unanticipated benefit to flying was that it put us home before the tornadoes hit our area this evening. We were alarmingly close to where one touched down, but am happy to report we got home safely and without damage. So far we still even managed to keep our power, but are being told to conserve water because a pump at Lake Thunderbird (our city's water source) was damaged.

As many of you have probably seen on the news, it could have been much worse, so we're snuggled in at home counting our blessings (Elmo DVDs included).




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