Christmas & Birthday (written Jan 1st 2007)

Welcome to the Terrible Twos (written over a month ago, but never posted - oops!

So far, the twos aren’t too bad, but it’s only been 2 days since my baby turned 2!!

Unfortunately, Molly celebrated her birthday by being woken up at 4:30am and shoved in a carseat and driven to the airport to catch a flight from Nashville to LaGuardia to Dallas – yes that is correct we had to go east to go west! How this happened is another story, but the gist is that our direct flight the day before was cancelled and American Airlines in all their wisdom decided to reroute us through LaGuardia. When we got to the airport, we learned that the first leg of the flight was delayed and we would miss the connection. So I had to buy a ticket on Southwest (which worked out great, but expensive). I had wanted to fly Southwest to begin with but when I made the original flight reservation back in April, you couldn’t fly from Nashville to Dallas. I much prefer Southwest to American because they allow you to preboard with toddlers.

Anyway, back to the birthday. We arrived in Dallas around 11:30am, at a different airport than my car. Fortunately, Ann and Jordan came and picked us up and took us from Dallas Love to DFW. I got the car, then the cats, and went home! Molly took a nap and opened some birthday presents and then we went out to dinner with Ann and Jordan – they both ate rice and vegetables and a birthday cupcake!

Molly enjoyed her 2nd Christmas very much. She helped put all the presents under the tree and then helped hand out the gifts on Christmas morning! She loved announcing the size of each present as she handed then out (“tiny” “big” “heavy”). She loved opening her gifts too – caught on to how to open them after the 1st gift! She was thoroughly spoiled and enjoyed playing with the toys over the rest of the week in TN. She kept pointing to the room with the toys and saying “play toys.”

She did amazingly well on the flights and even did well at the airport during the 7 hour wait before AA decided to cancel our flight (including 2 hours of sitting on the runway). The portable DVD player was a lifesaver, as was the Kipper DVD Molly got for Christmas!