Fly, Fly, Away

Two firsts happened today in Madison's life.  The first first...She had her picture taken with Santa!  I'd post the picture here but then it would spoil the Christmas cards we will be mailing out later!  We were very surprised as to how well she did.  The anticipation of a screaming child and making a scene was replaced with a sheepish child that got a PICTURE PERFECT shot on the first click of the camera!!!!  The perfect start to a VERY long day. 

Her next first happened later that night when we took our first plane ride as a family of three to Atlanta.  All the talk of plane rides, how it worked and building it up to be fun really paid off in the end.  She did FANTASTIC!  The toys, books, crayons, drinks and all the other things you pack to keep a child busy on the plane weren't needed at all.  She was completely fascinated by the whole idea of being in the air and just talked and took in her surroundings the whole 55 minutes.  What a good little girl!

I guess there were really three firsts since she did take her first "train" ride as well from the terminal to baggage claim.  That was all she talked about over the weekend...BIG plane and choo-choo train.  We arrived safely in Atlanta for the start of a WONDERFUL birthday celebration weekend in Atlanta.