Jennifer Garner and Violet arrive in Boston, wait for car seat

The Jen-Fans gallery has two great new photos of Jennifer Garner and Violet Anne, 7 1/2 months, arriving at Logan Airport in Boston by private plane on Tuesday evening. Jennifer and Violet had been in Arizona the past few days while shooting The Kingdom, but came home to visit Ben Affleck.

However, the attempt to leave the airport did not go as smoothly as everyone originally anticipated. According to the Boston Herald, Jen and Violet got into the SUV waiting to take them to Cambridge only to find that there was no carseat installed. Jen was apparently "adamant" that one be found, and "took the baby in the terminal and didn’t come out until someone returned with a seat…When the guy did come back with one, it took him about 20 minutes to figure out how to secure it. She wasn’t happy.”

Violet is pictured sucking on a Gerber NUK pacifier ($3.99 for a set of two). No diamond encrusted pacis for this little one!

Sources: Jen-Fans and The Boston Herald

Comments

What a cutie! Violet is getting so big.

- ally on July 19th, 2006

Violet is so adorable, she is growing so fast. She looks like Jen, but as she gets older you can see some Ben in her too. I love how they dress her in a lot of purple and pink, very girly colors.

- Raquel on July 19th, 2006

Violet is soooo cute. I am starting to really love Jen and Ben. They seem so content with their little family, and not being so glam.

- EditorJax on July 19th, 2006

LOVE HER!!!!!!!! And the rest of the family. I love how Violet is wearing purple. She is getting so big and she is to darn cute.

- michie on July 19th, 2006

Violet is ADORABLE!!! Glad to hear she has the sense to wait for a carseat!!!

- momof2girlies on July 20th, 2006

Glad to see that she cares about carseat safety. I’d wonder about the install though if it took him 20 minutes to figure it out.

Violet is looking cute as always.

- Lorus on July 20th, 2006

Aw it’s cute how Jen loves to dress her daughter Violet in shades of violet or purple. (I guess might as well do it now, before the little girl can voice her opinion otherwise. lol)

Yeah that’s great they decided to wait to leave until the driver procured a carseat for the baby.

I wonder if the driver was attempting to install the carseat by himself (w/o Jen’s help) that it took 20 minutes, or even with her help/ideas it was still a tricky carseat to install?

At least they got one though, so that’s good.

- Autumn on July 20th, 2006

I think this whole family is so cute. I really hope this is one celeb couple that stays together. They seem perfect for each other.

- Lisa on July 20th, 2006

I’m from Boston and dare I say, have never been a big Ben Affleck fan, although I do like Jennifer Garner— avid Alias fan!

Also, as a mom, Jen could have installed the seat in 5-minutes, not 20, so that means the guy was the one who was probably attempting to install it…

Violet is a very sweet-looking, cute baby… glad to see that they are going the “normal” route and bucking the trend of over-indulgence— definitely a breath of fresh air to see at least one celeb family attempting to raise their child the “normal” way…

- Mariah on July 20th, 2006

OMG! Violet is growing cuter everyday, I can’t believe she’s already 8 months old! Her family is so loving and tender.

- Aleksa on July 20th, 2006

I love Jen and think she’s a great mom, but I have to wonder why she didn’t have a carseat on the airplane. All children under 40 lbs should be restrained in a carseat on an aircraft. In the event of bumpy landing or (God forbid) a crash, it can save your child’s life.

- spindoctor on July 20th, 2006

Spindoctor-When I have flown with my daughter(11 months), there has never been any mention of using a carseat. I even went to the Air Canada web site and looked for their regulations, and there is none that say babies need a carseat. Maybe it’s different in the states? I could have used one, but she flies free until she is 2, so there’s no sense to buy another seat when she’d be screaming her head off during the take off and landing due to her ears popping if she were in a carseat. I nursed her on the way up and down, and there’s no way I could have done that if she had been in one.

- Mommyx1 on July 20th, 2006

According to the article Jen & Violet flew on a private jet, so who knows what all she’d had on the plane as far as child restraints?

Maybe she didn’t think about taking the childseat from the plane (if she’d had one) to use in the car until a few minutes later?

Obviously a full size child’s carseat would be a bit difficult to carry, while at the same time she was attempting to carry Violet, so she didn’t think about removing the one from the plane until later?

(Maybe that was part of the reason why it took 20 minutes to fetch and install the carseat in the car? Who knows?)

- Autumn on July 20th, 2006

In 2004 I flew to NYC (to go to Maury lol, that’s a whole other story). I went with my friend and her two children her daughter was 6 weeks old and in a carseat most of the time anyway. Her year old son was with me most of the time and he was not required to be in a carseat. The flight attendent said that he was to sit on my lap facing inward, during take off and landing. He slept most of the flight anyway.
This was also on an Air Canada flight.

- halifaxhoney on July 20th, 2006

Violet’s getting to be big. She’s so adorable, though. I can’t believe she’ll be one in a couple of months.

- FC on July 20th, 2006

my favorite celebrity, jen garner… i cant wait to see what the baby looks like when she gets older!

- Ada on July 20th, 2006

It’s not the law that you need to fly with a carseat but it is the safest way to fly. Children under the age of 2 fly for free because they can sit on their parent’s lap.
I’ve flown with my daughter once she was over 2 and I brought her carseat along and strapped it into the seat. The best part about this (not including safety) is that she knows she’s not allowed out of her seat when she’s buckled in so she fell asleep during the flights.
For parents flying with little ones under the age of 2 it’s best to bring along a seat anyway since you can ask the attendants at the gate to put you beside an empty seat if there is one then you can use the carseat anyway. If not then you can gate check the seat.
NEVER check your carseats with your baggage!!! Just a simple fall to the cement can write a carseat off (hairline fractures) and make it unsafe!
A family member works for the airlines and has stories of young children flying around the cabin during really bad turbulance because their parents just couldn’t hold onto them. Scary thought.

- Lorus on July 20th, 2006

Yes, the FAA, NTSB, and American Academy of Pediatrics all “strongly recommend” car seats on airplanes. The NTSB says all children who ride in car seats on the ground should use them in the air. Most airlines will give half fare for children under 2 in order to encourage car seat use. I’m not sure why there isn’t a law yet, but it seems ridulous to me to require adults to be safely buckled in, yet babies can just sit unrestrained on laps. It just isn’t safe, in my opinion.

- spindoctor on July 20th, 2006

Actually, many car seats used in vehicles are not approved by the FAA for airline uses. My sister in law is a flight nurse & was telling me that they have had to purchase a special restraint device that is FAA approved & they are unable to use the childs own car seat even if the parents have it with them. I think it’s awesome that Jen waited for car seat. Way to set a good example!

- Bridget on July 20th, 2006

The regulations are different in the US than other places. When we flew on Jet Blue to California, Anya sat on our laps- we thought they would give us a restraint but nope. Then when we flew to Amsterdam (and had a seat for her – thank you Holland.com – and the car seat) they told us that if she sat in our laps, she had to wear a special belt that slipped onto my belt. By this time, we had bought the Baby B’Air (a vest for the baby to wear that attaches to your belt) but hadn’t brought it.

For some reason, the Baby B’Air is not approved by the FAA for take off and landing. Yet having your infant on your lap unrestrained is totally fine with them.

- Danielle, CBB Publisher on July 20th, 2006

We got the newest carseat from Britax — it’s the only one approved by the FAA and has an accessory that lets you roll it easily through airports. I don’t understand why anyone would take the chance and not secure their baby in a plane.

- kimbatina on July 21st, 2006