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you can tell they do this a lot

Things said by the flight attendants on our plane today:

- To those of you who listened to the safety instructions, thank you. To those of you who didn’t, good luck.

- Remember it’s open seating, so feel free to pick any available open seat…  in other words, sit down so we can get going.

- If you see someone cute, sit by them; you might find yourself with a new love interest. If you end up hating them, don’t worry; you’ll probably never see them again.

- Flight Attendant 1: “With my hawkeye vision, I can see a bag about 5 feet from the front of the aircraft sticking out of the overhead bin. Let’s take care of that now so we aren’t delayed any further.”
Flight Attendant 2: “With your what vision?”
FA 1: “My hawkeye vision. It’s a MacGyver thing.”

- Flight Attendant: “What’s your baby’s name?”
Us: “Brooklynn.”
FA: “You’re last name isn’t Bridge, is it?  Sorry, you’ve probably heard that one a million times. No? Well, thank you, I’ll be here all flight. Are you going to have more kids? You’re not going to do a bouroughs theme, are you? Although, maybe Bronx wouldn’t be such a bad name. It sounds masculine enough.”

- Welcome to Denver. We’ll cut right through the community chest stuff and tell it to you straight: Thanks for giving your money to us. We appreciate it. And we’d really like it if you bought another ticket, say tommorrow.

- (After we both ordered Dr. Pepper as a beverage) Are you all from Texas? No, because that’s a Texas drink.

- And remember, federal regulations prohibit forming a line by the front lavatory by the cockpit, so either wait in your seat until you see that the lavatory is open or feel free to congregate in the rear of the plane. We’re business in the front, party in the back.

things we are thankful for this holiday weekend

  1. Family and safe travels to see them over the past two weekends
  2. Children’s Tylenol
  3. Kleenex
  4. Naps during the day, because we all know who isn’t sleeping through the night anymore
  5. Food – too much and too rich and oh so good
  6. Bulb syringe to suck boogers out of a baby’s nose
  7. Having a baby to barter for free room and board (Grandparents are suckers for this one)
  8. Other travelers who don’t mind when the baby poops on a plane
  9. Other travelers who do mind when the baby poops on a plane (I don’t like it either, but I deal with it)
  10. Football, because it entertains Brooklynn just about as well as her dad when it is on TV

happy thanksgiving

The life of the road of warriors continues. While yesterday was our fifth flight with Brooklynn, it was the first on a plane that was large enough to have three seats together on one side, which meant we had to share a row with someone – up close and personal. Yes, Brooklynn is a good traveler, and we do our best to keep her occupied, but there are some people who would rather not sit beside a baby for a couple of hours.

Luckily, we ended up next to a woman who was expecting her first baby in four months. So, we got to discuss naming, nursery decorating, and traveling to see family. Also, she didn’t complain about the smell when Brooklynn decided to poop on the plane for the second consecutive flight.

On the last flight, we had a row behind us completely open, so it was easy enough to lay her down and change her. And the plane yesterday had a changing table in the bathroom to use – Rhiannon grabbed Brooklynn and the wipes and headed to the bathroom while I grabbed a magazine to read an article I had seen in the contents when I flipped through it. 30 seconds later, Rhiannon was back. She had the baby. She had the wipes. She just didn’t have a new diaper.

We figure that this will be the only Thanksgiving that Brooklynn will be content to kick around on the floor while we eat. She did sit on my lap while I had my piece of pumpkin pie and watched pretty much every bite go by. I think she would have been more than happy to take on of the bits off of my hands for me.

long weekend over

In summary:

Brooklynn couldn’t pop her ears so she cried.

The volleyball team got second – five games in the championship round.

We got to see everyone up in North Dakota.

We drove almost 700 miles, or enough to get from there back home to Denver.

We flew home.

Bump It

Good job, Sarah. Brooklynn says she had a good time, when she wasn’t crying or sleeping at least.

Pumped up fan.

2 down, 1 to go

The semi-finals of state volleyball are over.

We have a somewhat regular schedule at our house, but that schedule has also included a baby waking up in the middle of the night for the past two weeks. We are just doing a complete schedule reboot this weekend. It’s almost midnight and we are just getting her to bed. Yes, she slept on the drive home, but it isn’t the normal bath, story and bottle routine we’ve grown accustom to.

We’ll be back again tomorrow, cheering at the finals. Brooklynn doesn’t really understand the game of volleyball all that well, but she likes to smile, coo, be cute, and spit up all over her parents. It might not be the best system, but it’s our system and the team is winning, so we’re sticking to it.

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