Saturday, March 7, 2009

Antarctica- On our way!

We left home on Wednesday, February 11th. My sister (Shannon) dropped Bubba/Nana (my mom) off at our house and our friend/general contractor/chauffeur Josh drove all six of us to the airport in his industrial-sized truck. Then we had 2 flights ahead of us. First, we flew into Dallas, which was a measly 4 1/2 hour flight. After a short layover, we flew on to Buenos Aires which was a 10 hour flight that we were supposed to sleep through...
Really, our traveling went pretty well. Paige and Jonah were happy watching "Cars," "Happy Feet," and "Wiggles" movies on Mike's laptop and Jack liked coloring and stickers and reading (and nursing of course). Oh, and Jack started singing (for the first time) "Twinkle, twinkle little star" with me on the airplane. It was sooo cute. It went like this "o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-up-up-up-up-up-up-up-up-up-up-up-up-up-up-up-up...." I think the kids ended up getting 7 or 8 hours of sleep. Mike and I, on the other hand, got maybe 5... Thankfully we only had to sleep on the plane 2 nights during the length of our trip!

Here's a cute picture of Jack, browsing the Sky Mall catalogue.
And another cute picture of Jack... He just can't help but be adorable. But he DOES look like a BOY! He got called a girl sooooo often on our trip- even when he was wearing his blue sunhat without hair showing!
Here Paige is, winding up a toy frog that flipped in the air and actually landed on its' feet! Auntie (Shannon) got it for one of the kids as a Valentine gift. It was a perfect airport activity. Thank you Shannon! Paige, Mommy, Daddy or Nana would wind it up and Jack would jump each time the frog jumped. It was pretty cute. Again, Jack just cannot help but be cute!
Last for today, here is a picture of Jack with Nana. Jack LOVES his Nana. She takes him where he wants to go...
Next stop on the Antarctica adventure: Buenos Aires!






2 comments:

Three Girls with a Mom said...

Sounds like a great start to your trip! Awesome your kids travel so well. Jack is pretty cute and looks like a boy to me. But then Katie looks like a girl and gets called a boy all the time and she is in pink almost every day!

fiona said...

Jack totally looks like an adorable little boy -- even with those gorgeous long lashes he still doesn't look like a girl. Sleeping on planes is sooo not fun, thank goodness it's relatively short in the grand scheme of things! Even when it's a 10+ hr flight...ugh!