More Airplanes

So tomorrow night we're embarking on another adventure to the east coast.  I'm definitely hesitant after our last trip but at least this time we'll be staying for 9 days so we'll all have more time to adjust.  We also went ahead and bought Esme her own seat for our return flight which is during the day.  Tomorrow night we're on a redeye again and we figure she'll just sleep on us anyways.  We're headed to Sneads Ferry, North Carolina to visit Aunty B, Uncle Josh, Makena and Capri.  I've been having Esme practice all their names and they end up sounding like "Ah-Bee-C" for Aunty B, "Kena" for Makena and "Pea" for Capri so we decided to use her other nickname, Cici, which she can say with no problem.  For Uncle Josh she can say the correct amount of syllables but it sounds nothing like his name. 

Since our last trip Esme's sleep has been awesome.  Bedtime is still at 7pm but now she's sleeping in till about 7am (previously it was 6am) and sometimes (maybe once or twice a week) till almost 8am.  It's so strange on those days to get ready all by myself without having to distract her the whole time.  When we're all home and she gets up we just pull her in bed with us and she'll lay there quietly until one of us opens our eyes and makes eye contact with her.  Then she's all over us and no one's going back to sleep ;)

We took this picture on our last trip when we met up with my sister and family on her birthday in Corning, NY.  It was Labor Day so the town was pretty much shut down so we decided to take a picture on the sidewalk.  We put the camera on a timer and placed it on a storefront ledge.  Well all of a sudden, right before the camera was about to go off, this man in an electric wheelchair appeared out of nowhere and had no idea we were taking a picture so he's just inches from the camera when it went off.  That explains some our silly faces cause no one knew what to do :)