Except The Kitchen Sink

Yes those are disposables. I’m sorry. I’ll donate to conservation. Yes that is an inflatable bath seat. Still more compact than Little Miss’ regular one. Yes those are antiseptic wipes for baby tables or toys.

Occasionally I feel the need to tell everyone I’m a serial over-packer. And then I remember you already get pics.

9 hour flight, 2 hour stopover, then another 55 minutes to our destination; as always we travel with no help and it’s our first time with She Who Hates Cars who will now be making an acquaintance with Plane. That should be 3 meals and I want to do minimal washing up when we arrive and have to unpack (we also travel with bottle sanitizer, cot, stroller…!) hence all the disposables. We intend to throw-as-we-go, and btw you may want to check if your disposables leak – because every single one of those disposable feeding bowls I bought leaks.

This is what Little Miss will be having

Oh, we did manage to nix the breast pump though. Just barely. It was harder than expected, there were hormones involved (I got quite nauseous and a little moody).

Goodbye to an era

Would’ve been a post all its own, but I’m running out of time. Maybe if I manage to fix my nightstand up something good, when we return… Meantime..

Left to right, least leaky to worst

I so cannot do proper product reviews. But well here’s my experience with the 3 different breast milk bags – surprisingly the most expensive (if I recall correctly), on the right, leaked the most, when I then defrosted bags of milk. The middle one was the cheapest I think, and…. not bad. I really liked the Lansinoh ones – not a leak so far, and I’ve used lots and lots of bags…

Yes, I packed breast milk in an ice box. More on that later…

Know when my traffic drops? When I don’t put pictures of my children every post.

The Great Expedition about to embark.

2 trolleys of bags and boxes, one baby in a stroller. Baby in stroller was Rockstar’s responsibility. Because the other two trolleys were probably about his weight. (Naw, he’s also a super big bro most of the time!)

A duty he discharged most admirably. (He’s trying to tie the stroller to himself in the pic)

This is them joy riding across the airport to the proper gate…

And… and…

And…. what’s going on on the plane here?

Yes. We really did that on the plane.

It was really not a very conducive flight for sleep. By the time they actually dimmed the lights, it was really late – and a 4-ish year old Asian girl seated nearby was VERY loud watching tv around 10-something, waking the baby who then took quite awhile to put back to sleep.

Morale of the story is you can plan and plan and pack and pack but the unknown is who else is on the flight. Everyone else was really wonderful.

And we had a little “brioche party”…

And then because we’d had a slight flight delay it was a mad rush to make our connecting flight…

Rockstar was pretty thrilled about our connecting flight ride…

(Because of the short night time sleep all 4 of us ended up sleeping at least a little way of the 55 min flight)

A-aand…….

Anyone recognize this airport???

Hint: Pr-obably not the cities mentioned on the screens, which is where those flights are from, in this baggage claim area…

ps: Sorry I’m slower than usual replying comments, wi-fi’s been slower than we’re used to, especially to access disqus