👶✈️ A real life beanie baby

Jake and Kelly Levine took their first trip with five-month-old daughter Romey last month. 

It was Romey's first time on a plane, and Jake and Kelly were worried about being that couple, holding a screaming baby on the flight.

The power of ✨ distraction ✨... Luckily, Romey was quiet as a mouse, mostly because of the woman sitting next to them who was crocheting a sweater throughout the flight. 

• “Entranced is the perfect word,” Kelly said of her daughter's infatuation with the woman. “Romey is a very curious baby; she loves to just watch people and observe.”

As the five hours between Cabo San Lucas, Mexico and Hoboken, New Jersey went by, Jake and Kelly were relieved and thankful to the crocheter in the seat next to them. Romey just couldn't seem to get enough of her.

And she noticed. 

“She started staring at me so inquisitively,” Meegan Rubin, the passenger, shared of the baby's adorable attention. 

• So with an hour left of the flight and the perfect amount of yarn to finish a spontaneous project, Meegan got to work on her next thing. 
• “Okay, it’s done!” she exclaimed just after the plane landed. She handed the new parents a beanie that was the perfect size for Romey's little head. Jake and Kelly stared back in shock. 
• “We were totally shocked, as were the other passengers around us,” said Kelly Levine. “I was near tears.”

🧶 The backstory: Meegan crochets for fun, typically making things for friends and family – or an occasional commission if she has the time. When she noticed little Romey enthralled by her quick moving fingers, "[she] just had to" make her her own little hat. 

👀 Looking ahead... Meegan and the Levines have stayed connected and hope to form a lasting friendship.