Day 145...homeward bound

Jun 13

Martyn is seriously the best traveling baby, ever! I already knew that, but even after this busy weekend, he still was just perfect on the trip home.

I sat next to a younger couple on the first flight (to Sacramento) and talked with them the whole way, about world travel. Martyn fell asleep and slept nearly the entire way. It was quite an enjoyable flight.

On the second leg, an old couple sat with me, and they were also very friendly. When they first came to sit down, they sort of gave me a little sideways look about having Martyn, and I said very cheerfully, "don't worry, he's a great traveler." They were very courteous and friendly and gracious, but didn't look too convinced.

Martyn was awake the entire flight this time, and a little squirmy here and there, but still very very good. I got out some toys for him to play with and chew or suck on, and he was happy enough with that. When I got off the plane and went down to get my bags, I saw that old couple at the baggage claim. The lady came up to me and Walt, who was holding Martyn and said "oh your baby was just wonderful. You said he would be good, and he really was." Right as I was getting off the plane, the old man said to me "you are a wonderful mother....is this your first baby?" I said he was, and then he said to me "well I hope he is the first of many, because you are just an excellent mother."

That just made my evening. What a nice thing to say! Makes me smile just thinking about it. We stopped by a place on the way home from the airport, to have dinner and meet up with Eli's cousin Heather for her birthday. It was cool, but Martyn had had it by then. For all his being so good on the flights, he was done being held, and ready to go to bed. I was able to calm him for a bit, and we had some really good pizza, but then it was just time to go.

It was so nice to give Eli a kiss when I got there, and a hug when we all got home. I missed him, even though I was only gone for 5 days. He said right as we were going to bed, "I'm so glad you're home, the time went by a lot faster this time than it did last time...." I said that's because it was a lot longer that I was gone last time, ha!

It felt SO good to climb into my own bed and Martyn slept the whole night through, whoo hoo! Starting Tuesday night, we're going to really start training him to sleep in the bassinet or crib. The time has come.