I don’t know about all of you, but we’ve been on a road a lot this Christmas Season. I think we are finally home for the rest of the holidays, and it feels good. When you travel with small kids, it seems like there is so much stress instead of the joy that their should be this time of year.
We packed up our Suburban with all the kids stuff; two pack and plays, two booster seats, 4 suitcases, an air-mattress, pillows, blankets, large cooler, heater, presents, and of course all the hunting gear my husband brought along. Plus toys to keep the kids happy and many other small items. So our Suburban was EXTREMELY packed and we’re driving down the road….and Luke gets bored. I’m playing Robin Hood in their DVD player, but he is losing interest. So what does Luke do?
He decided to attack the DVD player. You see the DVD player we have for the car has two screens that attach with Velcro straps to the headrests. Luke starts kicking his feet against my seat, so of course I turn around and tell him to “stop” and hold his feet for a while. Well that stopped him for a few minutes before he started kicking the seat again. This time after a little bit in my peripheral vision I see the cord move that goes to the DVD player. So I turn around and see that somehow Luke got a hold of the DVD cord. So I tell him “no” and take the cord away.
Once again this worked for a little while, and then he started kicking again and I once again see the cord moving, so I turn around and low and behold Luke had somehow used the cord to get the entire DVD screen in his lap. Of course he started laughing when I turned around…like he was saying “Hah…see what I did mommy?”
So after taking back the screen and putting it back on the headrest, I finally got some “mommy smarts” and took off Luke’s shoes and braces (since they give him an additional inch or two in height). That did stop Luke from kicking my seat and DVD player, so he was no longer able to get the DVD screen.
Only now he was so bored he took off his socks and then started sucking on his toes…specifically his big toe! I guess that is one advantage to his flexibility!!
The whole DVD, toe thing happened when we did two grandparent trips back to back. After that we came home for a day and then left again for great-grandma’s house. This time we didn’t need to take as much stuff, so I packed it all into our car. We were also able to take our smaller cooler, which fits perfectly between the two car seats in the back seat.
On this trip, because they had a new prop…when Luke got bored he started playing with the handle of the cooler. He pushed it towards his sister and then his sister would push it back. Of course they both laughed and thought this was the funniest thing in the world! At least they were entertained and happy.
Of course after a while, Luke got bored of that and started kicking his feet again and tried getting the DVD screen again. This time mommy got smart early and took off Luke’s shoes and braces right away. On this trip, for some reason Luke couldn’t get his socks off…so instead of chewing on his big toe he had to settle for chewing on his socks.
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