Vail, Day One

Richard, Grady and I left for Vail, Colorado on Saturday, February 13th. It snowed a few inches in Charlotte the night before, but thankfully our flight on Saturday was still on time despite the weather. Before we got on the plane we gave Grady some Benydryl hoping he would sleep on the plane. It did not work and he was very excited the whole time and all over the place! We tried to quite him down a lot with food. He ate a whole roll of Ritz crackers, a small pack of cookies, lots of fruit chews, and many other things. Then we had a to drive to our hotel which was a little under 2 hours away. It took us 3 1/2 hours because the roads were in such horrible condition. It was very scary and were praying a lot! Grady slept a total of 20 minutes and it was from the time we put him in the rental car to the Walmart we stopped at in Denver. Therefore, he was unhappy and whining and crying the whole 3 1/2 hours Richard was driving in the snow storm! My singing, which isn't good, was all that would calm him down. I would fill in normal lyrics for lyrics that were prayers for God to protect us and get us the hotel safe. We finally made it and got a great night of sleep. Unfortunately, my parents, Ty, Neely and Josh were stuck in Charleston with the snow. Their Saturday flight was canceled. Then when they flew here Sunday, their flight was an hour late, they missed their connecting flight in Dallas, and then made it on another flight to Denver a few hours later. Their luggage was lost, but it is on it's way to our hotel now.

Here is Grady sitting in his car seat in the airport. Grady's first airplane ride!

He loved looking out the window and opening and closing the shade.

He watched a lot of Blue's Clues on the plane.

STEVE! If you can't tell he was changing seats/positions constantly! Thankfully nobody sat on our row so we had three seats. It was somehow the only empty seat on the plane!

Grady loves to wear his "goggles." He calls anything that goes over your eyes goggles.

There was a sweet family beind us with a little kid and they played peek-a-boo a lot. He especially loved the grandmother behind us!

A sweet man a few rows back came up to us and gave Grady a pack of cookies. He said he bought them for Grady when the snack lady came around. We thought it was really nice of him. He said that Grady had been eyeing him and smiling at him a lot and he wanted to get him a treat! You can tell Grady loved them!

Pushing buttons on Daddy's laptop. We were trying to entertain him with every toy we could think of that made zero noise. We even had Blue's Clues muted.

Tickle Monster gloves!

Here he is alseep for his 20 minutes. Literally we put him in this seat, he was so excited to get in and was asleep before I closed the door and without sucking his thumb. Richard had not even put our bags in the car.

This is how upset he was during our 3 1/2 hour, 10 mile an hour drive through the mountains! Poor guy he was first biting his shoes, then took his socks off and was biting them in anger! Food nor drink was entertaining him anymore at this point. Sad, but funny to us.