Fun in ‘Homa

We survived our first flights as a family of three!  I considered this trip to see the grandparents to be a bit of a test run for our upcoming trip to Thailand, and from our travel experiences so far, I’m both reassured that we’ll manage fine and also a bit daunted.  Oscar managed the trip fairly well, but both he and his sister are proving to be a bit clingy now that we’ve arrived at Grandma’s house (he refers to both Grandma and Papa as “Grandma”). 

Oscar was, again, a fabulous flyer.  He sat in his seat all by himself, without trying to push himself onto my lap, which was nice.  He scored window seats after the gate agent noticed that American had reseated the two of us in different rows (geniuses).  I was concerned that he would be scared of takeoff, but he loved it – yelling “go go go” to make the plane go faster.  When we left Dallas we ran into some weather, and he was a little nervous in the clouds, but when we broke out of them to a point where he could look at the clouds all he could say was “wow” over and over.  Very sweet.

Etta loved being the center of attention everywhere we went, with people on our flight from SFO stopping by to tell us how beautiful our little family is.  Unfortunately, when we arrived in Oklahoma things changed.  My previously “easy” daughter apparently is experiencing separation anxiety and has not allowed a single person other than me to touch her, which isn’t going over well with her cousins, aunt and grandparents, but we still have a few days left here.

Oscar and Etta both experienced their first summer storms (we don’t really have thunder and lightning in No. California, and it only rains between mid-October and March).  Etta was clueless, but Oscar seemed to think the lightning and thunder were fun and the fact that it was raining when it was warm was awesome, apparently.  He thought the first clap of thunder was “cool,” but the very loud lightning strikes were a bit scary until Papa yelled back at the lightning, which seemed to make everything okay.

Other than that, we’re just hanging out with the family.  Oscar loooves his cousins, who seem to think he’s a new pet, chasing him around until he squeals.  Grandma just made a big batch of chocolate chip cookies, which I suspect will be demolished by tomorrow morning.

A few pics from our afternoon today . . .

September 3, 2010 - Posted by Oscar and Etta's mom | Etta, Oscar, Our family, travel