40 weeks - first flight

On Thursday last week we took Tim on his first flight. We flew to Frankfurt to visit Jack's uncle Bernhard and family for his birthday. Overall everything was very good and we actually had a very nice relaxing weekend. It was very nice to see Tim with his relies. He also got to sit in an antique highchair that was used first by Jack's auntie (you can see it on the second last photo). Tim flew without problems and even managed to sleep a little on the plane before the pilot decided it was a good idea to talk loudly about arrival times and service on board. Timmy only started to get grumpy when descending mainly I think because he had to be strapped in to me for the last 30 minutes and that's pretty damn boring. We took the fast train on the way back, which actually arrived on time - an amazing achievement for Deutsche Bahn, and that was fine, too. Again - towards the end of the journey Tim started to get grumpy, but that was very manageable. Now we're mentally preparing ourselves for our _somewhat_ longer flight to Melbourne next week.

Upon our arrival last night from Frankfurt Unix decided to show his disapproval for our travels by peeing into our half unpacked suitcase. Well we were pleased to inform him that during our Aus trip he'll be looked after by our lovely neighbours and hopefully won't be so lonely.

As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago Tim was scheduled to go for his development check this morning. We were a little surprised when we arrived at the doctor's office, as the woman who greeted us wasn't our normal paediatrician. She was actually a development therapist and has her own little office out the back of the doctors clinic. There were matts on the floor and the whole thing probably took about 40 minutes. She was very thorough and checked a whole bunch of different things and all in all we're very happy to say that Tim is completely fine. Some things he can actually do now that he is not even supposed to... so needless to say that we were very very relieved and happy.

And speaking more about Tim's development - he now waves when people wave goodbye to him! :)

Some photos from last week (on the first picture Tim is wearing a knitted suit that was once mine)...