Christmas in Quincy

The Georgia Caspermeyer's traveled to Quincy, IL last Thursday to do Quincy Christmas. Grace did great on the flight into St. Louis. Which probably made us overly optimistic about how our return flight to Atlanta would go.....

We ended up having a snowy trip!! But we didn't do much playing in it.



Friday night we did Christmas with the immediate family. We mixed it up this year and started with the youngest.....mainly so Grace could go first and head to bed!! She made out like a bandit, but didn't quite grasp opening presents. She will have lots of practice in the next couple of weeks in that department, though! Thank you to everyone for all of Grace's Christmas presents!






Saturday night was the Fischer Family Christmas. Another late night partying and playing hot potato with the baby. Which I think she personally loved.

And Sunday was the official kick-off of Birthday Month. This will be a separate post...stay tuned.

The big hit of the weekend was "dog dog", aka Blondie, the Dailing Family yellow lab. Grace loved dog dog. And she started holding objects up to her ear like she was talking on the phone. Mainly remote controls. Or her cousins' cell phones.



Our return flight was a complete nightmare. We were THOSE parents with the screaming baby. :( I'm hoping it was less about ears and more about being overtired and worn out from her very exciting weekend in Quincy. It was bedtime when we took off, and we did everything possible to entertain her and keep her from screaming, yelling, crying..... the nice lady in front of us even gave us a candy cane for her to suck on. And it worked for awhile. She also almost ate an entire quart ziplock bag full of goldfish. And worked on a bottle of baby green beans and her sippy cup of water and about half of a bottle. All this in the span of a little over an hour, which felt like eternity. We tired just about everything. The icing on the cake was landing early in Atlanta and then having to sit on the tarmac for another 45 minutes while we waited for a gate to open up. Not a good situation at all. The 48 other passengers of our very small, cozy airplane were not our biggest fans.

All in all, it was a great trip! Grace is having the time of her life. :)