Road warrior?
1. Potty training goes nowhere at home, but on the road, she pees on every new potty she can find – without any aides.
2. They cry as you deplane because they want to keep flying. (Everyone around you breathes a sigh of relief that the crying waited until the end of the flight.)
3. Finding the Playmobile figure’s medical case or seeing a picture of a suitcase in a Macy’s ad sends you child travel planning “Suitcase mommy! Take airplane to Hawaii? Everyone take airplane?”
4. Driving through certain shaped tunnels (just like the one as you drive under the international terminal to get to the domestic terminals at SFO) causes you toddler to start looking for “Airplanes, mommy? Airplanes? Everyone go airplane to Vegas, Baby!?”
5. She calls the hotel “Home” even if it is the 5th one in a week (moving has its privileges). She even prefers hotels to home, because hotels have elevators and swimming pools.
That’s one jet-setting lady. She looks so cute, all ready to get places. I love it how my son will eat anything that the flight attendant brings him, even when he’d never eat it at home.
it’s amazing, my son who doesn’t eat at home. is great on the road! not fantastic, but i know if we stop three times a day in restaurants he’ll eat! he became potty trained while traveling, actually in a restaurant:) now when we fly, and arrive, he’s like, aaaaaahhhhhhh, that was sooo short:)
The Travel Expert(a) and an Expat with a Twist
1. diaper change in the airplane bathroom (which requires child to stand on the toilet seat) doesn’t phase him one bit.
2. the favorite pretend game at home is “flying to florida”
3. jumping up and down, waving, and yelling “take me with you” to planes overhead
4. trying new foods, as long as they are in restaurants
5. my all-time favorite, the leaving-day tantrum. ok, i’m not a fan of the tantrum, but i like the attitude it represents
Great post!
My daughter always used to call them “home-tel”, and when cross with me would exclaim “I want to go live in a home-tel!” At that moment, I did too!