We took the divide-and-conquer approach while I went to my brother's wedding this weekend. I took my toddler daughter with me while my wife stayed home with the other two kids. I was excited about it because she typically gets the least amount of personal attention from us. My goal was to avoid letting the wedding plans get in the way of making this weekend about my relationship with her.
I was off to a slow start with my goal. Cosby jokes that whenever anyone brings a child on a plane, by the end of the trip everyone knows her name. This was true in our case, I think more because of my natural impatience than because of her natural spunkiness. I'm not sure how many times I repeated her name with a "no," "wait," "please stop," or an "I give up" kind of sigh. Looking back, she was really wonderful on the plane. All she wanted was to play with the window shade, push the light button, twist the air-flow knob, or open and close the food tray. That should have been a small price to pay for taking her on a long trip.
After getting off the plane, we rode in a car for another four hours to reach the country location of the wedding, finally reaching the hotel at 2 a.m. Because of all the excitement and travel, she was having a hard time falling asleep. But she didn't make a fuss. She was angelic. To tell her how much I appreciated her patience, I let her sleep with me in the bed. To be honest, she was really doing me a favor too. I don't really get to do that often.
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