Jaime's First Visit at the Farm

As I became weary of Jersey and saw a twinkling of a light signaling my job search might be coming to an end, I decided that we needed a trip to the farm.  Poor Dan didn't get to go - he was stuck going to work and taking care of the dogs by himself.  So after waiting for a few things to finalize with interviews, I booked the tickets.  The little bug was going on his second flight before his fourth month.

We woke up at 2:30am and made our way to Minneapolis.  On the flight from Chicago to Minneapolis we sat in the front row- Jaime sat there and grinned at everyone as they boarded, he then went on to flirting with the young woman sitting next to us, he would stare at her until she would look at him and then he would smile and giggle and then bury his head in my chest.  When we arrived in MN, Jaime was excited to find his grandparents waiting for him at the baggage claim.  We got ourselves situated and finished our journey with the drive to the farm.

I was curious as to how Jaime would do with so many people and so much more constant stimulation after being in a pretty isolated existance in NJ.  He did great and is quite the little extrovert.  He was very curious about his cousins and his wild uncle Ray and aunt Tamy, Grammie was good for snuggles and Papa was entertaining with mornings spent checking things out around the house.  He even got to snuggle with Mean (the very mean cat). 

While I was taking Logan's senior pictures, Jaime got to go on his first tractor ride.  And Grammie took him to the pumpkin patch to hunt down a Jaime-sized pumpkin. 

The early morning flight and time zone change made it a little tough for both of us, good thing the farm is a great place for napping if you time it right.  And we might have pittered out early a night or two, going to bed before everyone else. 

We went for a trip to visit Grandpa S (who passed away a month or so later).  And went on a quick shopping trip with Grammie.  Jaime was a charming little bug and didn't throw a fit until the night before left.  Since it is a long drive from the farm to the MN airport we drove up the night before and he started his night sleeping in the car, while I was getting ready for bed he decided that while those grandparents are cool he wants his mom in eye sight so threw a little fit.  Not bad. 

It was a great first visit.  We saved checking out the cows at Ray's until when Daddy is there with us (*cough*we ran out of time).

He did awesome on his flight home, we had a longer layover in Chicago and he tried to get a businessman to pay attention to him, no dice so he just continued to play with his stuffed animals on my lap.  By the time we landed in NJ I was exhausted and ready for a long nap without a squirming babe on my lap (love you bug). 

And it was time to get started on the nanny search with only a couple of weeks until my first day of work.  A few days after we were back home, parents called with the news that big huge storm was headed our way.  My smartass response was that we will just get a canoe.  More on that to come.