1st Airplane Ride

Christian's first airplane ride went fairly smooth....after the mad dash to get there!
I buckled him in the seat and he didn't make a sound. Of course he had his security transition toy clutched tightly, the infamous "Farmer in the Dell" music box.  He didn't even flinch during the takeoff, and I'm thinking, this is going to be ok.  We managed to feed him and he laid down to sleep.  His bedtime is 8:00 and by now it was 9:30pm.  The drama unfolded when it came time to wake him up to get off the plane.  He slept through the landing so that worked to our advantage. We got everything packed back up and ready to deplane when we had to wake the sleeping banshee.  He went temporarily insane, I am sure of it.  He had a major meltdown, he was SO tired.  The stiff body that is hard to hold on to, the screaming, people staring, the whole shebang!  We managed to get off the plane and by the time we boarded the shuttle bus to take us to the terminal entrance, he had calmed down.

We head to baggage claim and miraculously, all the bags came out pretty quickly.  Sidenote: I spied a cat (yes a real live feline) calmly sitting on a bench by a baggage conveyor, like it was waiting for it's bags or something. It was so funny to see a cat inside an airport. When we came back around to show it to Christian, it had disappeared. Now I know I was tired, but I swear I DID see a real cat!

Into the car we went for round two of the exhausted meltdown.  He quickly fell asleep only to have the sleeping banshe awaken again to get into the apartment we rented in Moscow. It didn't take long to get him to fall back asleep, thank you God, and we managed to fall into bed around 2:00 a.m.

The doctor came to examine him at 6:30 a.m......you guessed it, meltdown number two.  But it didn't last but 15 minutes (after the scarey doctor left) and we were off to playing.
So it will be interesting to see how he behaves on the 9 hour flight from Moscow to New York and then the next 2 hour+ flight from NY to St. Louis. I pray the flight to St. Louis goes smooth because we depart from Aunt Cindy in New York because she flies back to Orlando from there.  Keeping my fingers crossed and prayers sent for smooth plane rides in our future.
~Amy