Last Friday

Friday – We cruised out of our hotel room at 3:30am with a few hours of sleep to gas up the rental car, drop it off, take the shuttle, and wait around at the airport for our earlier-than-dawn-bad-idea flight (J says I never get to book the flights again). Aiden was literally giggling and giddy as we dragged ourselves to check-in. The first flight can be filed in the Aiden bad behavior file with a solid D due to overtired contradictions of what he wanted to play with, dissatisfaction with the pilot's seatbelt requirement, and upset over missing foam puzzle pieces. We had a huge layover with a minor delay in Houston, and Aiden literally snoozed for nearly 3 hours. The next flight he gets a D+ (his overall average grade would have been better but he discovered that kicking the seat in front of him was funny), but he was mostly content because we said the pilot wasn't going to stop to see Lizzie unless he was good. He was so excited to see Lizzie in the airport! He ran off the plane and jumped in his too-small-yet-used-to-seem-so-big stroller for another cruise. We met up with Lizzie in the tiny meeting area that CLE offers, where she had brought dinner tacos and an invisible ink pen book (thanks!!). We had about an hour and a half to giggle with Lizzie before we were off again. We must have looked tired because a nice cart driver caught us as we made it through security and offered to drive us to the gate. Those little golf carts can cruise and Aiden loved the wind in his hair. He was totally content on the third and final leg of our giganto journey earning an A. We arrived back to Providence at 9:30pm, threw our bags in the car, and cruised home to find the lonely kitties (who hadn't even knocked over the easter tree!) and a nice dry house (thank goodness, since the flooding was not as kind to our neighbors).

If I wasn't there for his birth I might believe that Aiden is my sister's kid.