Christmas Day

    We had a really great Christmas, and I hope you did too. Connor woke up at about 7:15am {gasp!} and wanted to go straight downstairs to see if Santa came. I beat him to it so I could catch his reaction {see below}. He was so happy and couldn't wait to play with his new firehouse and firetruck set. We were able to get him to wait a bit before opening all his other gifts by feeding him breakfast. If it was his choice he would have opened all his gifts in 5 minutes, but we wanted to make it last a little longer.

My happy boy!

Day 1-3 In Texas: Airplanes, Suprises, and Pictures With Santa

Day 1: Sunday 12/14   

     Early in the morning before the sun even came up, Aaron, Connor and I drove to Malpensa Airport in Milan. Aaron and I decided it would be best for Connor and me to leave a few days early because the flights were starting to fill up. Our chances of getting on a flight as a standby passenger would be much better on 12/14 then 12/18 {when Aaron got off for winter break and was planning on flying}. 

     My wonderful father-in-law offered to fly to Milan to help me with Connor on the long flight. Our plan was to meet him at the airport and he would help me check my bags and go through security. Well, that sort of changed when his flight to Milan was delayed by 5 hours! Aaron helped me get all of our bags to the ticket counter, but I had to wait in the line for the next 2 hours to get checked in and put on a different flight. Our original flight was going to JFK and there were several unsold seats and we were pretty much guaranteed a seat on that plane, but we weren't going to be able to make it since Pappy wasn't going to land in Milan on time. Our only other option {since there are only 2 flights to the US out of Milan a day} was to fly to Miami. The flight was delayed 2 hours, and we were told we probably wouldn't make it because it was so full. I had them take our luggage anyways and as I was on my way to security, here comes pappy to the rescue! He saw just how much work it is to go through security with a baby! We walked what seemed like 5 miles to the gate, and waited for them to call our names.

 Watching the airplanes go by.

FaceTiming With Santa

   Connor and I FaceTime with my mom on a daily basis, but recently we have started talking to someone else. Sometimes right in the middle of our conversations with her, Connor asks to talk to him! It's not grandpa, so who could it be? I'm sure my title gave it away, but it's Santa! It all started a couple days ago when my mom was in the attic going through her Christmas decorations. While we were talking with her, she showed Connor one of her many Santa decorations. 

This is the Santa that started it all!

Connor Meets Santa

    We took Connor to see Santa Claus today. I have been looking forward to this for awhile and was so excited to go. Connor had a rough night last night and woke up with a little cold, so we weren't sure how he was going to act. Thankfully he was good the whole day until we got home.