Friends, this Thursday, we are leaving for a wedding. A 4 day long trip, 6.5 hours away by car. With.a.baby...... Now, I know my son pretty well at this point. I know once we get there he will be fine. The issue in all of this is the dreaded car ride.
Most NORMAL babies are soothed and rocked to sleep by the gentle movement of the vehicle. My kid? HELL NO! THERE IS STUFF TO SEE OUT THERE! Therefore, we must gab to the trees, sing to the birds, chat with the clouds, and scream bloody effing murder when we realize mom and dad are in the front and not paying attention! ( I realize that was a lot of exclamation marks, yes they are necessary).
My child is wonderful in every way and I truly would not change a thing about him. I am working on figuring out how to keep an almost 6 month old (holy cow when did that happen) baby occupied for a trip that I would have trouble staying occupied on. Any suggestions from other moms/dads/grandparents/teachers would be SO helpful. We have colored ring links that he adores, his tiger, an interactive moose named Mortimer and as simple as it is, he loves playing with burp cloths. Most of the time he gets the clean ones. We have looked at books with him, and he loves that, when we are doing it with him.
Here is the second part to this, I get car sick. I didn't have an issue with this ever before being pregnant, and now if I am in a car for more than 30 minutes, I feel like death. It is 100 times worse sitting in the back seat. I am looking into any sort of natural, breast feeding safe way of handling this to make the trip not so terrible for my poor husband. Any advice on that would be amazing again.
Once we get to our destination, I know things will go well. I even got a new dress for this and frankly, I feel like I look good in it. That is a big deal for me.
Now we come to the third part of this post. Finding G something to wear to a wedding. We have a lovely blue shirt/ khaki pant combo for the rehearsal dinner, but the tux I ordered for him is HUGE! It says 3-6 month size on it, but I think it is closer to 12 month. And the jacket would fit a toddler. Plus, when I pulled it out of the bag, one of the buttons fell off of the vest, so it's poorly made on top of being large. I had stupidly put all of my eggs in that basket, so to speak. Now I am running around looking for something to dress my child in for this wedding and online at least, stores only carry the most ridiculous looking dress clothes for boys. Girls have millions of dresses of all caliber, but boys? Unless you want your wee one dressed as a sailor, newsie, or some sort of pastel short/overall type thing that I can't even identify as regular clothing, you should give up hope. Oh, that is unless you want to spend $60 on a shirt he will wear all of maybe twice. I am going to scour some more stores today. Ross and TJ MAXX were a bust yesterday.
On a lighter, completely unrelated note, we have added to our family. We now have a wonderful Airedale terrier mix named Tucker, who will officially be adopted today. We started out fostering and he has fit in so well that we decided to keep him.
Look out next week for the part 2 of this adventure. The drive to Ohio. Wish us luck!
For yourself on the car trip, try those pressure bands for your wrists. I've heard they work without knocking you out. For Gabe, try finding a mirror for him to watch himself in. That may keep him distracted for 5 minutes or so.
ReplyDeleteI forgot about the mirror, we do have one that he can see himself in and we can keep an eye from the front. It has helped in the past. I will look for those pressure bands. Thanks!
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