First Airplane Ride

Ella did great on her first airplane trip. If her ears bothered her at all, she didn't show it. I nursed her on take off, but she wouldn't nurse on landing. She was a squirmy, screechy monkey the whole time, but no crying. The lady sitting next to us was quiet, but very nice. She took the picture of us. Ella kept trying to grab her book and her bracelet and watch and the lady was very patient with her. She also kept hitting her with the airplane menu thing that I was letting her play with. Ella made lots of friends in the airport while we were waiting. It's funny how many strangers want to talk to you when you have a baby. When we landed, Jeff met us just outside of security. We were walking to the parking garage and an older man stopped us and said he had been watching Ella since the airport in Dallas. He said she reminded him of his grand-baby who he was missing and he thought about "borrowing" Ella for a few minutes, but decided that maybe wasn't such a good idea. It sounds kind of creepy, but he was actually very nice.

So far, Ella's doing very well being away from home. She hasn't had a good nap since Thursday morning, which is no fun at all, but she's sleeping well at night, so that helps. We couldn't get her to nap at Thomas' at all yesterday, but she took two short naps in the car which was enough to take the edge off. Actually, she's been in a great mood, even though you can tell she's tired. She took to Thomas right away this time, which was nice since she gave him a hard time the last time he saw her. She loved, loved, loved Nisha! Nisha sat on the floor with her to play and Ella was trying to crawl up into her lap. I don't think I've really seen her do that with anyone else but me.

I was a little worried about how she would do at night sleeping in a different bed. Also, because we have a king at home and Jeff and I don't usually do well just the two of us in a smaller bed, we had planned for Jeff to sleep on an air mattress. But that didn't work out and I felt sorry for him sleeping on the floor, so we all three squeezed into Thomas' bed. It was cozy, but we all slept fine. Poor Thomas slept on the couch even though he had to get up at the crack of dawn to be at the hospital. Such a good host!

This morning Ella decided that she'd had enough Mommy and cried every time Jeff got out of her sight. It actually took me a few minutes to realize that's what she was fussing/crying about. She's never done that before. Jeff got her down for a nap about 45 minutes ago. We're holding our breath and crossing our fingers for a good nap to start the day!