We accompanied the hubs on a work trip, which can have its challenges as it is, seeing as though there are dinners to attend, time changes to accustom to, and hours of single parenthood.
For being only two hours behind, Hailey actually did pretty well. I would say that honestly 90% of the time, she was an angel. She slept well (we may or may not have put her crib in the bathroom), she was quiet and extremely well-behaved at 7 out of 8 meals (and she wasn't bad at the one meal… if you count playing hide in go seek at a Ritz Carlton restaurant in bare feet good…...).
She had a ton of fun at the resort, though, taking full advantage of the pool area and splash pad (which is what they termed the fountains for kids to run around in). She did not enjoy the surprise of the fountain, though ;) (see photographic evidence below) I'm fairly certain she was the only child there so she kind of ran the place. Most of the staff knew her name by the end. Is that a good thing or a bad thing…???? Probably a little of both, huh?
She counted every stair. Every time. There are exactly 14 stairs from the lounge area to the walkway. Just so you know. Hailey would want you to know.
She really did do pretty well, overall, though. Why is it that all you can remember are the trials? And… is it more stressful that your child is screaming on an airplane (that honestly maybe only 4 or 5 people could actually hear, because if you've ever heard Hailey scream, it's more like a dying cat… she's not a loud kid) or that you're worrying about what others are thinking and that you are disrupting their first-class 3.5 hour experience? I'm going with option b, at least in our case. The hardest part about it, is she has no reasoning skills. So she does not understand why, if she says yes or please, she doesn't get something, or if she says no, why it can't just not happen (ie walking around the airplane during landing). Or, better yet, if she says help, why we can't just open the water bottle and let her have at it.
Reasoning skills are next on our list… maybe...
Always an adventure...
