Desmond likes to climb, I’ve mentioned it before. He also knows how to pull out the dining room chairs now. So Dan left his computer up and running and his chair pushed in while he went to do something. He came back to see this.

Desmond happily typing away on his computer, with the chair pulled out.

Today is my Mom’s birthday, so even though we’re in India, I pre-set this post to wish her Happy Birthday. I hope you have a great one, and I won’t even share your age, aren’t I a great daughter *grin*.

Anyways Happy Birthday Mom from me, Desmond, Dan, K-line and the bean!

Desmond likes M&Ms, actually he likes chocolate, a lot. So I will let him have one or two when he asks for them once or twice a day. I figure that he is so active that 5 or so M&Ms a day isn’t doing him any harm. I do have to say though that I never realized how much mess 1 M&M could make until I had a toddler and gave him one.

There is more chocolate on my arms!

I like chocolate!

We made it here safe and sound.  Today was the first day we could get online, the flight wasn’t horrible Desmond slept for 4 hours of the flight, would have been nicer if he had slept a bit longer, but he didn’t.  He has been waking us at 2:30am since we’ve been here we’re hoping he starts sleeping a bit longer soon.  So far it has been a nice trip, though a bit more sleep would make it even better.

I’ll try to post again when I can.

Okay I’ll be shutting down my computer in about 10 minutes or so, we’re packed, the bags are in the car, Dan’s doing last minute house things and then we’re on our way to India. Enjoy the posts that have been put up for while I’m gone and I hope to post some from India so keep an eye out.

Anyways I’ll either post from India or on the 4th or 5th when we get home. Have a great 2 weeks all!

So we are all packed except for a couple of minor items. This is really nice, we still need to clean a bit, but we are more or less ready for India! We did have to stop and pick up a hat for Desmond, since the one I had was too small, but I found one at Gymboree for 99 cents so it worked out nicely, now if only he’d keep it on his head.

Anyways we are all set and ready to go. It seems that Benadryl does nothing for Desmond, it doesn’t make him hyper, which is good, but it also doesn’t seem to knock him out, which is less good, but not a huge deal. So we won’t be drugging him with Benadryl to get him to sleep on the plane, I hope he sleeps on his own, 15 hours on a plane with a non-sleeping toddler would just not be fun!

So we got both good and bad news about the flight home from India today. The good news, we’re on the direct flight home, which is nice, it is shorter then the one with the layover in London, and since the layover was so short it wasn’t really worth the stop. The bad news is it gets in 12 hours earlier then our flight with the layover. Now this won’t be bad news, if we didn’t now have a 15 hour layover at JFK. Which so isn’t going to happen, there is no way Desmond will survive 15 hours at JFK let alone me and Dan.

Our options are to change our flight with Delta which is a $50 fee for each ticket, to try standby, which may or may not be the same fee or a $25 fee, hoping that Delta doesn’t raise their fees in the next 2 weeks, rent a car and drive home or pay for Amtrak tickets and just abandon our tickets home on Delta. All three will likely cost about the same, since with Amtrak we don’t need to get Desmond a ticket, he’s under 2, we can’t use the car seat anyways, and the seats are large and it being a train he can walk around which he’ll love. We figure we’re going to wait until we land and figure out which option to take from there. We are 99.9% positive the option will not be renting a car, because we really don’t want to drive 5 hours home after being on a plane for 15+ hours and being jet lagged.

I have a feeling the train may end being our top option, except the bus ride to the train is 2 hours before we get on the train, so that maybe pushing it a bit for Desmond after a day on a flight already. It costs almost exactly the same for either the train with the bus to it or the plane change fees, so we’ll just have to wait and see what happens when we arrive and if there are any ticket even still available on an earlier flight when we get in.

On the plus side we’ll be arriving home around 5pm most likely, which is much nicer then the midnight we were expecting.

So one of the cool things about the blog is you can delay posts to come out when you schedule them too. I have a couple of pictures of Desmond and I figure if I can’t get on while I’m in India I’ll set it up so that there are a couple of days when I’m gone when the pictures of him will go up. So I’ve made a couple of posts with Desmond pictures that will go up while we’re gone, so you can get your cute toddler fix.

When we went to Target today to get a couple of things we needed Desmond found a pair of sunglasses he wanted so we went ahead and got them for him. He is modeling them in the car, he quite likes his yoda sunglasses, though not enough to keep them on more then 10 minutes or so.

Let me just fix them so they are in the right spot

What are you looking at Mommy?

I am just so cool!

So we’ve spent the past two weeks getting ready for India. We are now 98% packed, which is just odd since normally we hit this point about 10 minutes before we head out the door, and then have to come back to the house 2 or 3 more times for things we’ve forgotten. One of our checked bags is finished and at my in-laws and the other one has about 6 more things going in it and it is packed as well. All our carry ons are packed, though there are a couple more things going in each of them, and the living room is cleaned and vacuumed. It is really strange being done ahead of time.

I’m not quite sure I like it, that last minute rush gives a nice adrenaline rush. Then again knowing we have everything we need and are all ready is kind of nice too.