We made it!

We made it to Idaho on Friday! We took the Michigan Flyer to the Detroit Airport early Friday morning (really early - we boarded at 3 am!) The kids did great on the bus - although they didn't fall back to sleep like I was hoping they would! Our flight left on time at 7:15 and about 5 minutes into the flight Sophie spilled orange juice all over her lap. And I daresay having wet clothing is Sophie's number one pet peeve. So she cried about it the entire first flight (about an hour and 10 minutes) Lucky for me the seats are 3 across so Brian was sitting with the girls while Miles and I dozed behind them - poor Brian. We had a 15 minute layover in St. Louis so I dashed the girls to the bathroom before we got on our next flight. In the bathroom Sophie absolutely REFUSED to put her wet clothes back on. So she was sitting on the bathroom floor in just her shirt crying and kicking her feet while I was pleading with her to put her clothes on so we didn't miss our flight. I knew there was no way I was going to get her to put on her wet clothes, so it was either I wrestle them on to her and carry her kicking and screaming to board our next 3 hour flight or come up with something else....... then I looked at Nora and had a moment of mommy brilliance. Because Nora is still fine tuning the whole potty training thing she had a pull-up on, and she had a pair of underwear on as well (she likes wearing them both). So I asked Nora if she would let sissy wear her panties and bless my lucky stars she said yes. So I put Nora's panties on Sophie and then asked Nora if she would trade Sophie pants (I figured Nora wouldn't be able to feel that the pants were wet with the pull-up on). Luckily, again Nora agreed - so we made the switch and raced out to board our flight - and barely made it. Whew. The seond flight went relatively well and we are happy to be here in Idaho & Utah visiting our family and friends!

nora on the bus at 3am

miles asleep on the plane

nora near the end of the 2nd flight

notice their pants.....