First trip with Sammie

Playing catchup so here goes nothing....

We took our first trip with Sam to St. Louis for Passover this weekend and Sam did really good. We didn't leave as early as we wanted to, which was to be expected with the new little one. We might have underestimated how long it would take ;). Anyway, Sam slept the two hours it took to get to West Memphis and woke up in the parking lot of Katie's grandmother's nursing home. Just amazing! Such a good baby.

Katie fed him while we caught up with grandma, and other family members that happened to stop by. It was a mini-family reunion!

Got back on the road and a little while later Sam woke up and Katie had to feed him. What was normally a 4 hour trip took about 6 hours, which was to be expected. After the second feeding, Sam was good to go and didn't wake up until we got to their house. Josh and Daria were already there, with Daria flying in late and barely missing her plane.

We were able to see lots of family at Passover the next day. Sam was the star of the party; everybody wanted to hold him and squeeze him and call him George. Not really, but he did get passed around to lots of people. Josh and Daria did a great job leading the service and are getting better at leading a rowdy group of people.

Diving back on Monday was pretty easy, with Sam sleeping most of the way. We stopped one time for feeding before Memphis and then right as we exited off the highway to see Grandma again, Sam woke up. Great timing! We visited a little more with Grandma and aunt Avis before we had to leave to get back home.

It was a lotta driving for a two nights in St. Louis but well worth it to see everybody's smiling faces.