We just came back from a week-long trip to beautiful Victoria, BC in Canada. Our baby just became six months old and he's the NAFTA baby, having been to the three North-America countries, seen two oceans (Atlantic and Pacific), hiked on a forest, seen Orcas and six airports and made dozens of new friends on the streets. Some adventurer he is becoming.
After the painful descent into the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport on our way out, we bought a set of earplanes and boy, the do seem to work! Our baby did not complain again on any of the five flights he's been in since. Well he did, but it wasn't pain, he was just fed up with airplanes and airports.
And trying to entertain himself in all those airports, he did a lot of flirting. In Seattle he was very interested in a 3-month-old baby girl, eating her feet and just slobbering all over her. In the twin cities he started to smile and make really loud noises until a blond girl a few feet away finally noticed him and smiled back. He seems to be a natural.