Formation

I had my formation solo this last week. It was my last solo flight in the T-34. I was flying off the instructor's wing for most of the flight except for a short time where he had me take lead. It was by far my best formation flight. The instructor, a former Thunderbird pilot, said he was "totally impressed." There was a flight doc student in the backseat of his airplane who was just along for the ride. She happened to bring a camera and took some pictures of me. It's pretty cool because we're not allowed to take pictures while we're up there so this was my only opportunity to get some. The position I'm flying in off his wing is called parade position. For us, the parameters are 20' of nose to tail separation, 10' of step-down (that's like vertical separation), and 4' of wingtip clearance. So here's the pictures. Remember, they are from the perspective of the backseat of the lead aircraft. The pilot you see flying the airplane is me.

Is Carter home?

Is Carter home? asked the kids when I answered the door. I got a little confused at first,I just stood there for a couple seconds puzzled with the question,than the other kid asked again, is Carter home? I said yes, than the three kids got inside while I was still standing at the door trying to understand what those kids could possibly be wanting with Carter. When they got inside Carter got very happy to see them, he ran around trying to show them his toys, the kids sat on the ground and started to play with him. I knew that those kids were our neighbors, and knew Carter, I just did not know that Carter was part of their playing group now. That made laugh. We have about 5 kids, ages 8 to 12, that come to our house at least twice a week looking for Carter. Did I mentioned that Carter is not even 2 yet? Anyways I found it both cute and weird =).

I'm a big guy now

My baby Carter is growing up! We got him a toddler bed, which he is in love with,(yep, got kicked out of the crib, to make room for Monique, the baby in the belly). The first night went really well, he slept the whole night, but I did not, I was too afraid that he was going to get down from the bed and wander around or even end up in the woods behind our house. The few broken hours I slept I dreamed about him playing with the knives in the kitchen. The new bed was working well for Carter but a nightmare for me! I decided that if wanted to sleep the next night I should have to put my Macguyver/ Brazilian expertise in practice, got my nylons and tied it from Carter's door knob to the bathroom's door, that did not work well, but at least I entertained my husband a little when he found out what was going on. Next day Adam went to the store and got me something that actually works, so Carter won't be able to open the door. I kind of slept better last night. Anyways I just wanted to share that with you guys to see if I can get some sympathy since so far everyone is just saying that I'm really paranoid. Here are some pictures, enjoy.

Note: I put some pictures of Adam and Carter playing in the rain (it has been raining lots these days, but nothing will spoil the fun for these two).

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Just so no one can say we haven't posted in a long time.