These won’t show up with the Flickr photos because I took them with my phone. Here you are at the airport, it’s probably a few minutes after 6AM and shortly after I realized that your grandmother (Mimi) dropped us off at the airport far earlier than we should have been there. In fact, before we went to this Dunkin Donuts in the airport we had gone to our gate to sit and wait. Then I asked a girl sitting near me whether she was on our flight to Florida and she said no, she was going to Phoenix and that is when I realized that we were so early another flight was leaving from our gate before ours!
You were fussy and bored and obviously overtired, and as much as I tried to get you excited about the planes taking off behind you, you didn’t really care all that much and I was so worried that you were going to freak out about flying.
But here you are, happy in flight. Honestly the most annoying thing about flying with you was that I was more interested in looking out the window than you were and every time I tried to lean over you to get a better view of the ground beneath us you got mad and tried to shove me back out of the way. Oh well. I hope you remember flying, this first plane trip, so that next time, in a few years maybe, I can remind you of what a brave girl you were the first time we went to Florida. I was so proud of you.