We’re ashamed to admit, but Cool Baby scarfed down a whole lotta junk food yesterday. Doritos Munchies mix, chocolate chip multi-grain bars, animal crackers, and Stella D’oro 100-Calorie cookies. Well, the Munchies might be the only “junk food,” but we’re not fans of giving him chocolate and cookies.
We did this so that the passengers of Jetblue Flight 392 wouldn’t inflate their life vests and beat us senseless with them. Even though we’re not supposed inflate the vests while in the cabin, crazed mobs aren’t fond of safety instructions.
We flew back from Orlando to NYC yesterday, and CB had his own seat. Cool Baby considers his seat harness/restraint his enemy. The only way we could keep bloody murder from coming out of his mouth was by putting Cheetos and Nacho Cheese Doritos into it. And then chocolate chip bars. And then animal crackers.
He wasn’t impressed by the dozens of DirectTV channels or XM radio stations available. All that he wanted to hear was the crinkly rip of another package of “food” being opened.
As much as we could worry about his low-nutrition inflight meal, flying and junk food will be kept at a minimum in the near future. The next time he has the munchies for Munchies, he’ll be out of luck. He won’t appreciate it, but we know what’s best – that would be Cool Ranch Doritos.
This post is part of Works for Me Wednesday.
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I was on a flight once with a little one that was fine as long as she was sat in her own seat, but when they strapped her to mom’s lap for take off and landing she screamed the place down the whole time! Doubt there was any solution to that one though. On behalf of the other passengers on your flight, THANK YOU!
Hehe – yes little ones do like having their own seat. Until they don’t.
Uggggghhhhhh! Annalyn is taking her first flight in a few weeks. She’ll be 20 months old. We’re not getting her a seat. She’s flying down to FL with my parents and back with us. I’m DREADING IT!!! I mean, that vacation should be nice. But the flight part? I’m so nervous!
We’ve talked about food, and coloring books, and regular books, and a magnadoodle. But I’m still scared…
And yes, Cool Ranch beats Nacho Cheese any day.
CB has flown several times in CM’s lap leading up to this flight. Just make sure that you bring coloring books, regular books, pop-up books, matchbooks, magnadoodle, cheese doodles, wet noodles, animal crackers, and real live animals, and I think you’ll be OK!
And then you take off…
i still have nov. 28, 2007 seared into my brain. It was the flight that made me curse the Wright brothers’ ingenuity. But once you get thru one of the “flights from hell,” you feel like you can take on anything.
i just put in my earplugs and i was quite ok. we’ll see if CM comments with her side of things.
I really wish I was on that flight with you. Oh, no – not because I would or could have helped you parent. It’s just that reading your article made me want Doritos or Cheetos so badly!! Man I could go for some Doritos and a Mountain Dew!
One more thing. It is completely irreverent to speak of Cool Ranch even competing with Nacho Cheese. Shame on you.
Cool Ranch rulez. Nacho Cheese droolz (because they’re looking at Cool Ranch knowing how yummy Cool Ranch is).
when i realized i would be alone with cool baby on one of the flight legs, i gave cool dad a simple choice: benadryl (he did have a runny nose, after all) or junk food. he chose the junk food and the rest is history.
We flew with my daughter when she was about 18 months. She had her own seat with her car seat strapped into it. During the outbound flight, we let her play on the floor in front of her seat while at cruising altitudes. Yes, it might not have been overly clean, but it kept her happy. We went to the second hand store before the trip and found little toys that were new to her and would not be a big deal if lost during the trip. We made sure she had her favorite blanket and stuff bear. On the return flight, she fell asleep before take off and didn’t wake up until we started descending into our home terminal 3 hours later. We were lucky…
We took our daughter to Germany when she was 2…we told her the no smoking sign and the seat belt sign meant…no crying and no whining! It worked!