The Flight

We had an eight hour flight from Phoenix to Honolulu.  I was more than a little nervous.
If you've ever actually met my children (well, the boys...) you would know why I was nervous. 

Most of my friends actually started praying for safety, understanding, and guidance weeks prior to our departure!  (I'm not kidding!  Have you met the three boys?)

During the flight, we had the option of strapping car seats into the plane or checking them.  We decided to strap them in.  Our kids are usually good travelers, and they are in their car seats often so we felt familiarity would be to our benefit.

It seems we did the right thing.  They jumped right into their seats and sat buckled up...the entire flight!  (Well, ok ~ we did let them out to go potty!)

Tyler...always (well, mostly) ready with a smile!

Love those dimples!!

Since Tyler is 4 and over 40 pounds he is not allowed to have a car seat on the plane.

No biggie since he has a booster seat, but booster seats are not

FAA approved ~ we had to check his booster seat.

He was a little wiggle worm!  I'm glad we had seats for the littles.

Aiden and Daddy

They are all smiles and ready to go!

Isaiah and Sister...

(yes, he adores his big sister)

Nope, she doesn't like to fly and she was nervous how she was going to get Isaiah to sleep during take off.

She always puts herself to sleep during take off and landing.

Don't ask me how she does it...

Ask about the Georgia trip...

Tyler and Mom

(Mom is looking a little tired and worn out...oh yeah...she only had 2 hours sleep.)

He read the safety magazine 3 times before take off...

asked specifically where the kid life vests were...

wanted to know where the rafts were...

when we would get to slide down the exit...

why there was water...

made me double check our safety belts...

had to move away from the window to watch the safety video (as if he hadn't already memorized the pamphlet!)...

tested the window shade...12 times before Mom made him stop!...

from there he moved onto the "in flight" magazines...

thank goodness they didn't have any catalogs.

That kid would have been a major shopper.

Note the blue mouth...

his headphones were not plugged into anything!

large sheet of stickers...check

crayons...check

paper...check

This kid was set...while sister slept!

Fortunately I was able to reach behind my seat to reach his stuff for him.

Aiden was not happy that Daddy slept...

I kept leaving my seat to get his toys...

candy...

water...

(see that water bottle on the left side?  They are the best!  I'll write more about them later.)

He actually got pretty good at waking his dad up.  He would tickle him in the nose or ear with the pipe cleaners.  :)  LOL.  That kid is a joker!

Aaaahhhhh......

Finally...

The Professor slept.

My kids are AWESOME travelers!

They each carried their own (age appropriately sized) backpack with toys and in flight supplies,

and

they had a pull along backpack with clothes, stuffed animals, and blankies.

(OK - I confess...they each some of my clothes in their pull alongs!)