On Thursday morning Reagan and I headed to PA for the weekend to celebrate my mom's 50th birthday, which is tomorrow! We were so excited to go home, but of course had to have a minor hiccup on our way...
Keith dropped us off at the airport Thursday morning, security was a breeze, got to our gate, loaded on the plane, we were taxing to the runway, Reagan was drinking her bottle and falling asleep, and then the plane stopped!! The pilot came on in his very "pilot-y" voice and said, "well folks we just got word from air traffic that all flights flying through the Baltimore/Washington area are grounded due to storms. We should hear some more news in about 45 minutes or so. Sorry for the inconvience folks." AHHH! At this point I didn't panic...Reagan was WIDE awake after that and thankfully she could run up and down the aisle of the plane and was the flight's entertainment! After 45 minutes of waiting the pilot came back on and said that it would probably be ANOTHER 45 minutes "or so" until we got another update from air traffic. At this point, I break down and cry on the phone to Keith! Reagan was being SOOOO good, it was just the fact that we had now been on a plane for 2 1/2 hours and we still had an hour flight to go to entertain her. Keith told me that if I stayed calm, Reagan would too....of course I responded with, in the nicest voice I could..."if you were on this flight you would NOT be calm either!!!!" :)
Here is the KICKER! After this glorious 2 1/2 hours of being on the plane and getting really hot Reagan was standing in the floor of the window seat, while I sat in the aisle seat. She was playing with something on the seat and would VERY occassionally bump her head on the back of the seat in front of us...well the woman sitting in the window seat turns around and says to me, "i'm sorry, but that is really bothering me." OH GOOD LORD!!!!!!!! I have said that my good deed of the year was not getting in an all out brawl with her and slapping her across the face...I couldn't believe it! I know how annoying it is to have a kid kicking your seat, BUT it wasn't a constant thing and good lord she is ONE and we had been on a plane for so long and she didn't shed one tear or anything!! ANYWAY...FINALLY at about 11:00 we took off for Philadelphia and Reagan fell sound asleep in my arms during takeoff...sweet girl!
Of course there was lots of running all over the place and visiting my Grandpa and hitting up the outlets, but the main point of our trip was the cookout on Saturday for my mom. It was really nice and we had a good time! Bad news, my camera ran out of battery (even though I charged it before we left!) so I have NO pictures! Love that?!
We were up and at 'em Sunday morning for our flight back to Raleigh and thankfully that was without a hitch! My sweet hubby picked us up at the airport and had a beautiful bouquet of roses waiting for me...
I am pretty convinced that the best 50th birthday gift my mom could have recieved was getting to spend the weekend with Reagan!! Happy (early) 50th Birthday Mom!!! We love you! :)
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