Road Trip!!
We have survived not only Alice’s first major growth spurt, but her first major road trip as well! This past weekend had the family loaded into the car and headed down to Windsor. Our main purpose was to provide some love and support to “Aunty Laura,” whose now-ex boyfriend will be singing the “You Don’t Know What You’ve Got ‘Til It’s Gone” song for the rest of his life… but that’s another story for another blog. Mostly. Got me thinking about how Rob will react when Alice is a much older girl and someone breaks his little girl’s heart; it won’t be pretty. Hats off to both Laura’s dad and Rob for not causing anyone any physical injury this weekend!
The road trip itself was fairly smooth sailing. It’s weird to have Alice in her rear-facing car seat in the back and not be able to see her at all. We have to find a few minutes to hang up the mirror that a friend gave us for that purpose, to avoid pulling over and discovering that Alice’s head is leaning 90 degrees to the left or something. (Oops). The trip is 3 1/2 – 4 hrs, which is just a bit too long for Alice, so we stopped once at a roadstop on the way down to feed and change Alice, and did something similar on the way back. During the second stop, we fed and changed her in the car — mostly. I was in the midst of changing Alice on the driver’s seat of my car when she decided to poop! Proud of my mothering instincts on this one: I grabbed the child (supporting her delicate neck, of course) and swung her into the air — poop land where it may! The seat of the car was spared. Alice was fine. Hurrah!
Anyhow – child is now crying. Love to you all!
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