Surprise!
We planned a big surprise for Nana Bananas and Papa for weeks. It worked out perfectly.
We took the baby home to meet her other grandparents (Dan’s parents had been out here already) as a surprise for my mom and dad. They didn’t think they were going to get to see her until Thanksgiving or Christmas. My sister and I plotted for weeks how to pull it off without them having any idea. Dan, the baby and I flew to Utah on Wednesday night and then drove to Vernal Thursday morning. Monica and I walked into my mom’s office and just said “Hi! How are yah?” She was so surprised. It was great. Then we took her to my parents’ house to surprise my dad. They were both so happy to get to see her before she was five or six months old.
I was very worried about the plane ride with her. I was sure she would scream the whole way. She was very good both ways. One guy on a flight even commented on how she was such an angel. If he only knew… If she wasn’t asleep in Utah, she was crying. She was completely miserable. The climate and the altitude are so different from what she is use to and we think she might be allergic to cats. Once we left Vernal she got progressively better and more tolerable (hehehe) each day. The best part, though – she actually slept, not only all by herself but for very long periods at night. (Which, of course, stopped as soon as we got home.) She got to meet lots more of her family which was great. They all loved her even though she cried when they just looked at her.