Longest Car Ride Ever!

Right after feeding #1

As you have read before, Eliza hates her car seat. Because of this, I was a very worried momma. So, we thought that leaving insanely early when she is used to sleeping would be smart. We packed the car on Sunday night and so left the house at 6:30 am. The first 2.5 hours she slept and when she woke up, we fed her. That was the good part...

Realizing she is stuck in the seat

The remainder of the trip consisted of doing ANYthing we could to keep her calm. Michael and I took turns sitting in the back seat to entertain her. Once, when I was in the back seat, I told Michael that we needed to pull over to change her diaper. When he picked her up and turned her around, we saw that she had had a huge poop blowout! So, I held her up like Simba on the side of the road while he took clothes off and did his very best to clean her up. Proud of herself and feeling much better, she took a nap.

She finally let us know she was done when we were about an hour out. Since it is hard to focus on driving when a baby is screaming, we went ahead and pulled over for dinner at a Cheddars. During dinner, she was so happy to get out of the seat. She was blowing raspberries and talking, so much so that several people stopped at our table to oogle her. 

With a full tummy and dad keeping her company, we finally made it to Burleson, with a short pit stop to see Nanny. One way I know my baby loves me is that she slept from 9 pm to 5:30 am. I got sleep!!! Looking forward to a great trip :)