Family and Fenway

For Memorial Day weekend, we flew up to Rhode Island for some family time and a baseball game. I had been prepping Amelia with pictures of family and their names so she was ready. Of course that can only help so much. She did remember all her grandparents, so I'll take that as a win for this trip.

Flying with Amelia is getting easier as she gets used to it. There are a couple of major points that will lead to a good travel experience.

• Just accept that she will take her shoes off at security even though she doesn't need to. God forbid that we do something and she doesn't do it too.
• She will not hold your hand. The closest you're going to get is her holding one strap of her backpack while she holds the other.
• The appeal of wearing her backpack ends about five minutes after putting it on.
• Pre-board if you can because the harness thing takes a few minutes to get on.
• Make sure the iPad is ready the second the light goes out. Now she knows the light has to go off before she's allowed to turn it on. And she remembers it.
• Headphones are a 50% likelihood. 
• Do not attempt to help with the iPad unless specifically asked to.
• After the iPad has to go back in a bag have M&Ms ready. Given two at a time you can buy at least 20 minutes, which is an eternity in Amelia time.
• Bring wet wipes. See M&Ms above.

 Amelia had a great time the whole weekend. She enjoys being the center of attention and having an audience. Gloria was able to record this little gem of her showing off her singing skills. My favorite part is how she ends the song.

Could she be anymore of a ham?

Matt and I got to get away for a night in Boston with some friends. Matt had scored tickets for sitting on the Green Monster and it was awesome. I think these might be the best seats in baseball. You're high enough to see everything, but close enough to watch the ball on every pitch. Aside from the walk-off home run, other highlights included a child with the middle name of Fenway being wished Happy Birthday on the big screen and a marriage proposal with the help of Wally the Green Monster.

Actual seat. Instead of the normal rows, you were basically seated at a bar.

You had to get your hand stamped to go into the area. I can't even remember the last time I got my hand stamped for anything outside of Las Vegas.

 Matt at Fenway.

 To help Amelia keep the names all straight between visits I've set up a photo gallery on our dishwasher. It's full and doesn't even have everyone we wanted to put up. Our fridge isn't magnetic, so this is our best option. She likes to pull the photos off (half of which are Facebook photos I just printed on paper since I knew they would get manhandled) and try to name the people in the photo. She's got her godparents, grandparents, Uncle Will and Aunt Bunny down. Aunts Anne, Amanda, Courtney, Kim, and Gina are at about 50% recognition. For it only being up a week, she's doing very well.

PS - she still says "Uncle Pet-ah" with her fake British accent. It's awesome.