Wedding in DC

This post is long over due but the pictures are just too cute to pass this one up.

The weekend of October 5th, we took Brady on his first flight. One of Charlie's fraternity brothers was getting married in Washington DC and luckily Maggie, one of Katie's best friends from college lives in the DC area so we decided to bring Brady and stay with Maggie on Friday night.  Maggie has 2 kids and offered to let Brady have a sleep-over at her house and let us stay downtown and enjoy the wedding reception, which was so nice of her and I think a lot of fun for Brady.

We were very nervous about how Brady would act on the flight, but overall he was very good.  On the flight out to DC, he was pretty excited and only got a litttle scared when the flight was taking off.  When the flight was taking off, we noticed that his eyes were getting kind of big and wondering what was going on...so we started singing the Pajanimals song (the TV show that we watch each night before bed).  Every episode, the Pajanimals hop on one of their beds and fly off to a magical land and sing.  Once Brady heard us singing this, he seemed to relax, which was good.

We got into DC around dinner time on Friday night and Maggie picked us up from the airport.  After eating some dinner and catching up, we were all pretty tired.  Saturday morning, Charlie went for a run because he was training for the marathon and Katie and Brady went with Maggie and her youngest one, Abby, to her ballet class.  Brady especially loved crashing the little girls' ballet class and was using the ballet bar to practice his walking.   All the little girls in their tutu's and Brady trying to bombard their class, was totally adorable.

Saturday evening we left Brady with Maggie and her family to have a home made pizza party and went downtown for the wedding.  And Maggie's oldest, Timmy, was such a good host and showed Brady the ropes...including how to build the best lego projects.  Brady just loved it.

The wedding was gorgeous at the National Museum of Women in the Arts and luckily the government shut-down that was happening at the time didn't impact the wedding, although we heard many other monuments and popular wedding venues had been affected by the government shut-down.  We had a great time at the wedding and stayed at the historic Willard Hotel right across from the White House.

 Sunday we picked up Brady and headed back to Chicago.  The flight back was a little more rough for Brady since we tried to muscle right through nap time.  He was getting pretty cranky on the flight and Katie thought maybe he needed a diaper change so she brought him to the tiny bathroom on the plane but Brady was not having it and hated the claustrophobic  bathroom and small changing table, which I don't blame him.  He was screaming at the top of his lungs until the diaper change was over.  He finally calmed down though and fell asleep on our lap.