So I should be excited right?? I just cant get over the fact I am driving a minivan. Anyone that knows me will tell you I wouldn't be caught dead driving one of those..well I guess pigs are finally flying as well. We spent over a week straight at least 6-7 hrs a day looking at cars and trying to fit 3 car seats, our diaper bag, bottle bag and our huge triple stroller. Sounds like fun right? Just picture us with all our baby gear, trying to fit all our crap in and out of cars, the kids are crying and want to be held and the car salesmen have now become our PAPARAZZI..it was hell-I just wanted to tell them instead of watching try helping us you dumb a**holes!!! We ended up getting a 2008 Honda Odssey.
Well I know I promised everyone details about our 4th of July road trip so I guess this is a very long over due post. Any multiple mom's that read my packing list I actually used everything. You know as I was packing I said to myself what am I bringing half of this stuff for and in the back of my head I could just hear my mom saying when you have small children you have to over pack for them.....Thank god for my mom because she was right! We left for PA around 8-8:30pm I figured it would work out good because the beans go to bed at 8:30 anyway so they would fall asleep in the car-WRONG!! I think Daddy gave them some money for their piggy bank if they promised him they would scream and cry for the first hour and 30 minutes. They took turns between Karl and Gabriella. Aunt Dot spent most of the time with her butt in the windshield turned around trying to calm them down. Between all the crying Arianna said something in her foreign sounding language to the 2 of them and she went to sleep and slept right through the crying..I swear I think she told Gab and Karl to keep it up and that she would take over on the ride home. We stopped around 11:30pm at Wawa to get a drink and use the restroom. When I came out of Wawa I happen to notice something very disturbing (yes I know none of my business) a couple had left their sleeping toddler in the car while they both went into the store. Why couldn't they take turns? I just don't understand people sometimes. Anyway the kids stayed asleep and didn't wake up until we got to Pop-pop's. During our visit Pop-pop took us for several rides on his new machine up into the mountains, the kids loved it so much at least one of them fell asleep each time. We walked around the river in town, they got to go in their swings, play in the kiddie pool, and go for several walks with Aunt Dot and Grandma. On our ride home guess what?? Karl and Arianna cried for most of the trip. I highly recommend driving at night because once they fall asleep they stay asleep unlike during the day.
While I was typing this post Gabriella woke up crying and when I went in her room she was sitting straight up in her crib like a big girl..I have no idea how she sat up all on her own but she did! So I tried laying her back down and giving her a binky/pacifier and she started shaking her head no. Oh boy I am in for some trouble if they are going to learn to shake their heads no at only 8 months old :)
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I didn't have a hard time adjusting to the minivan, I've always wanted a big family so a minivan seemed like the natural thing. However, my husband is still (2 years later, LOL) trying to adjust to it.
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