I'm finally back blogging! Since my last trip to the New Orleans, I have been busy creating another human. Meet the future world traveller: Drake David Rui Matthews.
Earlier this month, Drake at age 2 month got his first passport.
Before Drake was born many people told us life is going to completely change after children including not being able to travel as much as we use to. While I looked forward to my son's birth I was getting a bit bummed about our future travel prospects as a family.
One day I was sitting around with my massive belly eating ice cream and watching a Chinese talk show about traveling with children. One of the mothers said: We love to travel. We believe making our children fit (or adjusted) into our way of life, not trying to fit our life into theirs. A light bulb went off! She was absolutely right. Why should we change how much we travel because now we have a baby? We just had to travel differently. Greg and I became very excited over this new take on parenthood. We did some research. There are so many benefits to traveling with your baby as much as possible.
Valuable bonding time: Most people argue that taking a baby traveling is pointless since he is not going to remember the experience. I'm lucky that I will be spending almost 24 hours with Drake for the next 10 months. Greg doesn't have that luxury. Travel will give him that chance to deepen his bond with Drake.
Baby travel is cheap. Most domestic air travel for kids under 2 years old is free. International air travel is 10% of your airfare. Of course, free fare also means I have put the baby on my lap during the entire flight, but I found some airlines (ie: China Eastern) will provide you with a complimentary bulkhead bassinet . A friend also gave me a tip when booking seats. Instead of booking seats right next to each other if you are traveling with the hubby or another person, book the seats with an empty seat in between. Doing this increases the chance you will end up with an empty middle seat to put the baby in since most single travelers tend to stay away from middle seats.
Of course, we understand we still have to make certain adjustments and take precautions while we travel with him. For example, we have to reduce amount of bouncing around from one spot to another. During our trip to South America we spent a few hours in Lima, a couple of days in Cusco and Macchu Picchu, before flying to La Paz. We moved around a lot and spent two nights at the most at one hotel. With a baby we will reduce number of spots we hit and take our time with the spots we do hit.
We can't wait to plan our next trip with Drake!
Earlier this month, Drake at age 2 month got his first passport.
Before Drake was born many people told us life is going to completely change after children including not being able to travel as much as we use to. While I looked forward to my son's birth I was getting a bit bummed about our future travel prospects as a family.
One day I was sitting around with my massive belly eating ice cream and watching a Chinese talk show about traveling with children. One of the mothers said: We love to travel. We believe making our children fit (or adjusted) into our way of life, not trying to fit our life into theirs. A light bulb went off! She was absolutely right. Why should we change how much we travel because now we have a baby? We just had to travel differently. Greg and I became very excited over this new take on parenthood. We did some research. There are so many benefits to traveling with your baby as much as possible.
Valuable bonding time: Most people argue that taking a baby traveling is pointless since he is not going to remember the experience. I'm lucky that I will be spending almost 24 hours with Drake for the next 10 months. Greg doesn't have that luxury. Travel will give him that chance to deepen his bond with Drake.
Baby travel is cheap. Most domestic air travel for kids under 2 years old is free. International air travel is 10% of your airfare. Of course, free fare also means I have put the baby on my lap during the entire flight, but I found some airlines (ie: China Eastern) will provide you with a complimentary bulkhead bassinet . A friend also gave me a tip when booking seats. Instead of booking seats right next to each other if you are traveling with the hubby or another person, book the seats with an empty seat in between. Doing this increases the chance you will end up with an empty middle seat to put the baby in since most single travelers tend to stay away from middle seats.
Of course, we understand we still have to make certain adjustments and take precautions while we travel with him. For example, we have to reduce amount of bouncing around from one spot to another. During our trip to South America we spent a few hours in Lima, a couple of days in Cusco and Macchu Picchu, before flying to La Paz. We moved around a lot and spent two nights at the most at one hotel. With a baby we will reduce number of spots we hit and take our time with the spots we do hit.
We can't wait to plan our next trip with Drake!
(found this on weibo.com and love it. but don't know where this photo came from originally)
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