Getting ready for travel

Jordan and I have many trips in the next few weeks. Tuesday we’re heading off to spend time with my aunt and uncle. The big goal: Hand out lots and lots of hugs and smiles.

After that, we’re home for a little more than a week before our next trip: Building a new version of Jordan’s prosthetic. Jordan’s arm has grown at least an inch in the last year and the sensor that triggers her “hand” to open and close is really inconsistent. We (Jordan’s therapists and I) are pretty darn sure that if we could have a consistent trigger, we could get her to open and close that hand by choice. Jordan is a pretty bright kid.

So that’s exciting… And exhausting. I’m trying to think of interesting ways to hold her attention and excitement while she sits on my lap. These are probably the last trips we can take with her on my lap — 2 year olds must be in their own seat. Books work pretty well these days. Elmo is king in her world. So that probably means we’ll read Elmo books. She also loves dancing. LOVES dancing. But dancing in our seat will probably be annoying to our seat mates. I’d love some ideas. We haven’t been on a plane in almost a year since we started driving crazy amount of miles for mega-trips to Florida and the Northeast.