Danielle, Eric, Max, Echo and Riley: 44 Weeks Old

So this blog is a few days overdue, but we have been a bit busy. Last Wednesday, Eric, Max and I embarked on our first airplane trip as a family. Max did great. He woke up at 4:00 in the morning, just in time to leave for the airport and stayed awake until we took off in the airplane. I guess there was just too much going on for him to look at. He did great on the first flight. He had a bottle when we took off and I think he was asleep by the time the plane was in the air. He slept for most of the flight. I handed him off to Eric at one point and he woke up then. We only had about 15-20 mintues left in the flight. He was able to get down and do a little bit of exploring in the DFW airport and enjoyed a few bites of donut before it was time to get on our second flight. It was a pretty packed flight. He did ok that one, but he didn't have enough milk in his bottle and he sucked it down so fast. He stayed awake during the flight...it was a short one...and was pretty good. He got a little fussy, but his tupperware container with his cheerios in it kept him pretty entertained. Then, we got to see Papa and Grandma...boy, were they excited! We had lunch in Austin with my oldest friend, Margo at Chuy's. It was so great to see her again and enjoy some shrimp baja tacos. Then, we were off to Victoria. Max did not enjoy having to get back into the car seat again. He screamed for a long time and we were finally able to get him to calm down and go to sleep...just in time to stop at Buccee's! I thought we would be okay staying in the truck and letting him sleep, but of course, he woke up and started screaming, so we got out and walked around for awhile. Then, it was the same routine again. We finally got to Victoria and he had a great time messing up Grandma's living room! He got to see his Aunt Mary, Uncle Doug and cousins Wyatt and Cora. Everyone was very excited to see him. The past few days have been a blur. We had Thursday in Victoria and on Friday, we packed up and headed down to Port A for a long weekend. We are still here now, so I am just going to post a few pictures and then more details of our trip on this week's blog. We are enjoying our time here and I feel like it's going by too fast!