Flying with Kids

It’s been a while, but we are flying with kids again… this time 2! The last time we flew was when my eldest was about 9 months to the UK and it was a complete nightmare to say this least.

This time we were determined to have a better time of it. We arrived early - we had the little trunki ride-on suitcases which the kids absolutely loved and we seemed to attract the attention of the whole airport.

We spent some time in the lounge at Gold Coast airport (well worth the money - free food an there’s a kids play area [albeit a bit sparse of toys]) - all good so far.

Then the unthinkable happens - the flights has been pulled FORWARD, the crew want to get home early - when the hell does that happen????

We rushed to customs and found we hadn’t filled in our little green cards, off to do those and we are now really late. A quick dash across the tarmac on the Trunkies (very funny sight) and are last on the plane. At this point Keira (2) decides to chuck a massive tantrum (“No Plane, Naughty Plane!”). We are of course seated right at the back so I had to carry her in arms with several bags whilst she kicked several seated passengers in the head. She then screamed for the next 20-30 mins and no doubt annoyed everyone on the plane (see photo).

On the other hand - Jaron (5) was an Angel - sat next to the window and he thought being on the plane was the coolest thing ever (the landing was likened to the prison planet landing scene in Clutch Powers!). Keira cryed on the way down “Ow… ears hurted Daddy”, but we (and our fellow passengers) seemed used to it by now :)

Anyway - we finally make it to the apartment in Christchurch about midnight NZ time and all good. I’ll certainly be a bit more tolerant of parents with screaming kids from now on now I’ve been on the other end of it - Flying with Kids (especially a toddler) is not for the feint hearted!

Leave em to it!

I was recently inspired to pull out the XOs again - they had been sitting on my shelf doing nothing and I thought I should make use of them. Anyway - I’ve given one to @aspinall for his daughter and one to my son Jaron (5). 

I’ve pretty much just left him to it, and he’s steadily working it out.

Anyway, tonight I find him in his room playing around with the speech application. He likes this app a lot, but usually nothing more than typing his name and seeing what silly nonsense he can get it to say. He’s not much of a reader, but no surprise for his age and he is a boy!

What made tonight different though was that he pulled out his reading eggs spelling books (which he usually shows no interest in) and is typing in all the words to see how they sound.

What’s also cool is that the books are all lower case letters, but the keyboard is upper case, so he’s also learning his cases. 

So the moral of this story… when it comes to kids and IT… just leave em to it - they’ll work it out!