Before we took our first big trip as a family of five, I planned everything. In theory, I had this toddler travel thing nailed down. I honestly did a mock pack a year in advance just so I could get an idea of how much stuff we’d need to bring. You know: diapers, wipes, changing pad, travel cribs, travel snacks, travel entertainment, car seats, and diaper bag. Oh, and also clothes.
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As we got ready to leave for the airport, it looked like we were headed off on an Arctic expedition with all our gear, but I was confident that we had everything we could possibly need in exactly the right perfectly-packed bags.
Great in theory.
At Sea-Tac
I had booked us a flight on an older, smaller class of plane. (As my dad says, if it hasn’t crashed by now, it’s probably not going to.) For some reason, those planes boarded out on the tarmac. That always makes me feel like a visiting state dignitary, but okay.
So it’s not even dawn yet, and we’ve shepherded three bleary-eyed kids out onto the tarmac at Sea-Tac, an airport which is perpetually cold and windy no matter what time of year you are there. At the base of the stairs, they have a bunch of carts waiting for bags to go into the luggage area. Well, we had already handed over our checked bags ages ago, so we were good, right? Um, no. Turns out that the overhead bins are much smaller on the older planes, so all of our carry-on luggage except our personal bags had to go under the plane. What?!
While all the other people were boarding, I was standing there in the dark and the wind with kids jumping on my feet while I frantically dug through my perfectly-packed carry-on bags with all the travel snacks, travel entertainment, and everything else under the sun. I grabbed items nearly at random and crammed them into the diaper bag and Justin’s laptop bag. We were more or less the last people on the plane.
Finally On Board
It’s possible that the extra confusion and uncertainty caused one of our toddlers to have a meltdown in the aisle while trying to board. I certainly would not be allowed to publish something about that. If said toddler were now a teenager, I definitely would not be able to talk about how she proceeded to vigorously kick the seat in front of her for the next ten minutes and how the elderly gentleman whose back she assailed took it pretty well.
In the end, I had managed to find a few essential snacks and entertainment items, but nothing for me. But since I was a parent, just sitting quietly with no one screaming was entertainment enough.
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This is so relatable! And yet, I wouldn’t give up traveling with my girls when they were little for anything
It’s definitely worth it!
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We have been traveling quite a bit with our soon to be 4-year-old. She has always loved to fly, so we have never had any issues. It usually plays out in one of the possible scenarios. First is that she is to excited and talks all the way. Second is that both us fall asleep and leaves her mother alone to read her book. She was about 9 months the first time she flew and had plenty of trips at that time.
The biggest issue happened when I travelled alone with her to Kiruna when she was one. She fell asleep even prior to boarding our return flight. As with your case we were boarding on the tarmac and carrying her as well as our carry-on backpack (yes, we travelled light, without any checked in luggage). It was a challenge to get her into the plane and seated without bumping her head in everything. It is so much easier when they are awake. 😀
But that small line from where toddlers are easy to handle to where it gets hard is really thin. I can imagine that having more than one to attend to is making it easy to cross the line for all of them at once.
I had to take my son off a flight, asleep in his car seat, so I totally get that. Once they’re asleep, you don’t want to mess with it!