First trip to PA - Dec 9-18.

What I've discovered is that traveling alone with a baby is really hard to do! On the flight there, Cameron was a trooper. He mostly slept during our 2 flights (we had a layover in DC). When he was awake he stayed pretty quiet...looking at the lights and new people. He did start to get bored though at the end, which made him a little antsy. I was so glad to have a seat open next to us because I had to change a dirty diaper in the air...planes are not very infant friendly.

The flight back was direct. We ended up with a 2.5 hour delay leaving Pittsburgh and Cameron was really fussy & restless. I think a lot of it was due to the amount of time he had to be in the carseat before we got there...then in his sling or on my lap. When we finally took off, he settled down a little more. Slept most of the 5 hour flight. Maybe awake 1.5 hours total of it. During that time he was smiling and looking around. We had a bit of a rough ride for a while. During that time Cameron kept his eyes glued to me. I could tell he would start getting scared and was looking at me to see if it was ok...right about the time you see the fear creeping in, he would stop and get this huge grin on his face. I have to say the flight back was the worst part because it was a full plane and we were so cramped in our seat.

While there we did lots of visiting! He got to meet lots of new people and got passed around constantly! It was so cold there, his hands were constant ice cubes. Because of that he got spoiled and slept in bed with me and Grandma Beth every night. He was completely in awe of Ava! When she made any noises he would just grin (she is all about making noise and trying to get people to do it back to her). The last night at dinner he wouldn't take his eyes off of her sitting in a high chair eating french fries. I think he even got one thrown into his car seat.

Talking to Great Grandma Ann:



With Great Grandma Barb:



With Papa, Lisa & the kids:



With Grandma Beth & the Girls at our Christmas:



We had a snow storm the day we went up to Erie with Grandma Beth. It was a complete white out...caused us to head home earlier than we had planned. When we got home it was still snowing a bit so we had to take pictures. Cameron was not thrilled with the fact we bundled him up to go outside.

Overall, we had fun in spite of the trauma. On the way home from the airport we almost hit a deer. Then the day of the snow storm we nearly missed being in an accident (fishtailed around the car in the ditch in front of us...then back around the car that was stopped coming from the other direction). Oh, and Grandma Beth's bad knee started to give out and I think she tried to ram his head into the fireplace. =) We're hoping daddy let's him visit again.

A few videos of the slumber party fun: