We are still in Portland and will be flying home tomorrow but I wanted to go ahead and do one quick post about our travel day. We have taken SO MANY pictures and have seen so many places, I know there are going to be A LOT of Oregon posts about our travels. I better go ahead and get started!
And a special Happy, happy birthday to my mom and Kellan's Mimi! We love and miss her soooo much and will see her when we get back!
Great Papa came by our house to see Kellan before we left for Washington, D.C. for our flight.
In the parking lot at the airport with all of our luggage. We have so much stuff!! We are trying to teach Kellan to hold up one finger for "I'm one year old." Sometimes he gets it and sometimes he looks at us like we're crazy but we still have a couple of weeks :)
Daddy had sushi before we boarded...
Mommy had Potbelly's
Entertaining Kellan at the airport...
Is there a baby out there that doesn't laugh hysterically when you smell his feet?
If there is an empty seat available, you don't have to pay for a seat for babies under 2. We lucked out and had available seats on our flight to Denver and on to Portland. He was sooo good and slept most of the flight.
We had a short layover in Denver but we continued on in the same airplane. We took turns walking Kellan up and down the aisles to entertain him and stretch those chubby legs! Notice that he is wearing his "FEED ME!" shirt that Papa Mike brought him back from the Bahamas.
And last is a kind of terrible video that Michael filmed while I was taking Kellan on a walk. It is blurry off and on and I don't know why he takes pictures while he's filming because it clicks during the video. Oh well...you can see the flight attendant stop us to pinch Kellan's fat legs :)
Look out soon for more posts full of our trip down the Oregon coast, Crater Lake National Park, Mt. Hood, the Columbia River Gorge, Mt. St. Helens, lots of Washington and Oregon lighthouses, hikes to waterfalls, and of course Portland! I may be blogging about this trip until Christmas! :)
I feel like it has been forever since I have had time to blog! A couple of weeks ago I was able to get a few posts in before I had to start getting ready for our vacation to Anna Maria Island, Florida. I love to travel but I absolutely detest packing. Now that we have all of Kellan's stuff to take with us, getting ready to leave home for a week takes a lot more planning...especially when it all has to get on a plane! Not to mention since I am making all of his food we had to figure out what to take and what to buy when we got there. I will do a post about that soon because it actually took a lot of thought and there are some things I learned that I will and will not do again.
Back to the packing...I can not express how much we loved flying Southwest! The fact that your first two bags fly free was so helpful when flying with a baby. Michael and I both were able to take a full size suitcase with our own stuff plus 2 more bags! One of those bags held Kellan's clothes, bibs, diapers, wipes, toys, his small IKEA high chair that breaks down, Baby Bullet, breast pump, and a soft sided cooler with some of his homemade baby food. The other bag was his Pack N' Play in his own carrying bag. All four of those bags flew free including Kellan's stroller, carseat, diaper bag, Michael's back pack (carry-on) and my oversized purse (carry-on)! We had everything that we needed and then some.
This picture doesn't really do it justice...you can't see the backseat with the other 2 bags plus our 2 carry ons!
My dad, mom, Kellan and I waiting in line at the airport
Mimi and Papa across the aisle
Kellan was the perfect traveler. He of course checked everything out on the plane and had to touch it all. Thankfully we had Wet Ones that we wiped everything down with before he got his little hands on them...and I know what you are thinking...yes we were THOSE parents scrubbing the seats, arm rests, table, I even wiped the window and the wall. After he rubbed and touched everything he could get his hands on he fell asleep across my lap and slept for the whole flight!
Please ignore my blank stare...
Sleepy boy...
On the return flight we were lucky enough to be on a flight with an extra seat so Kellan was able to sit in his car seat beside us at no extra charge. He slept for the whole flight again and this time my arm didn't go to sleep! More posts to come on the rest of our vacation...
