Traveling Update

Downs

  • Because of all the excitement at the airport, Calvin wouldn’t settle down for his morning nap. Right about the time we should have been boarding our plane, 12:00pm, Calvin lost it and started crying. Unfortunately, our plane was 1/2 hr late so I was doing gymnastics trying to keep him entertained until I could strap him in the plane. Once we got on the plane, Calvin was howling but as soon as the airplane started moving, I strapped him in, put a bottle in his mouth, and he was out within minutes.

  • Calvin only slept for about 45 min on the plane because a flight attendent got on the intercom and started making an announcement about the beverage service which woke him up. He was in a reasonably good mood the rest of the trip but was very energetic and I kept him to move him around to keep him entertained. I was exhausted by the end of the flight.

Ups

  • I wasn’t sure how I was going to manage Calvin, the car seat, carry-on luggage, and checked in luggage by myself. However, with the aide of the Traveling Toddler which converts your car seat to an ad-hoc stroller using the wheels on your carry-on suitcase, and the Beco Baby Carrier it actually wasn’t too bad. The worst part was boarding the plane. The car seat is too wide to roll down the aisle. I had to carry the carry-on suitcase on my back (mine has backpack straps in addition to rollers), Calvin on my front, and carrying the car seat at around shoulder height to squeeze it past the seats. I added it all up and discovered I was carrying about 80 lbs which is more than half my body weight. Fortunately, a flight attendant was able to meet me about half-way and carry the car seat to our row.

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