On Saturday, Sept. 12, Kendall and I hopped a flight out to NC to surprise Saba! Nana was already out there. This was Kendall's 7th flight - she's well traveled for an 8 month old baby. She did pretty well, but slept even less than she did on her 6th flight, squealed more, and pooped not once, but twice ... the second one cleverly escaping her diaper and onto me. The guy next to us could not have gotten off that plane any faster. Flying with her by myself is getting more and more difficult. Getting both of our luggage, her carseat/stroller combo, and both of us to a rental car place and into a rental car was almost more than I could manage, but we finally arrived and BOY was Saba surprised!
Kendall got to meet Saba's new boxer girl, Maggie. It was love at first sight for both of them. Anytime Kendall got fussy, all we had to do was call Maggie in the room and we had instant smiles!
And dressed her up as a princess. So much for avoiding the "princess" stigma. At least she's too young to understand the horrible message given to little girls (in my humble opinion) by the Disney Princesses for now.
I thought she looked much better in her "South of the Border" multicolored hat than the tiara anyway!
Kendall LOVED the balloon Nana brought her. She especially loved trying to chew it. I kept waiting for her little mouth razors to pop it, but they didn't, thankfully!
Finally, a decent picture of Uncle Dan, Auntie Corinna and Kendall together. For some reason, in every other picture I have of my brother with Kendall, he's looking at her like she might be a tasty treat!
We had lunch with our good friend Josie at a cool Thai restaurant where Kendall was equally captivated by both the enormous golden Buddha statue and the wall of wine bottles.
The last night we were there, both of us managed to get colds so the flight home was not much fun, but Nana was with us on this flight so it was MUCH easier on me ... even though I still got the pleasure of the now traditional midflight poopy diaper (just one this time, fortunately). Note how blatantly UNsleepy this child is on a flight that happened right in the middle of naptime. And yes, she's chewing on a wine bottle.
Great Uncle Jeff and Aunt Diane came down from Lynchburg, VA to meet Kendall as well. Will post pictures from them when they send them to me! We had a great visit with everyone and will have to make it back to NC more often as there just wasn't enough time in between naps for us to visit everyone we wanted to see.
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