i'm not sure i've ever posted about daley's absolute loathing for the car, but after today's little excursion, it is well over due!?
i'm pretty sure i can count on one hand the number of car trips we have taken where daley has babbled happily, slept or just sat contently while we made our way to our destination.
picture pouring rain, a long trip and two *almost* healthy kids in a car with just one parent (the driver)...moments into the trip as per usual, jack passes out cold (he has always been a good traveler), and then there's daley who is growing increasingly more irritated...even trickier is the fact that i failed to bring my "go-go-gadget" arm along with me and i can barely reach her seat to hand her anything (not that she'd take it anyway-it usually gets thrown back in disgust). key soothing music, let's try avett brothers, eh she could take them or leave them, ok now this has worked a couple times in the past, but i likened it to a fluke...let's try pete yorn's "relator"-bingo! she instantly calms, and we listen to it on repeat for at least 6 times and she is finally asleep. ahh...two sleeping kids. for about 15 minutes, because then of course jack is awake and wants to talk about all the trucks and the fact that its raining so hard, oh and did i bring him a snack and a drink? all the while i'm pleading with him to use his "inside voice"-lol. sufficed to say, daley slept for a little over and hour, and then she screamed bloody murder the rest of the ride, aside from a few short moments when she was happily eating happy baby yogurt melts...i'd say our trip to hilton head this summer is going to be a good time. i might be toting a flask along with a couple sippys in my diaper bag;)
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