About a week ago, Marcus made the call that we were going to pile the kids in the car for another trip to Searcy to spend Thanksgiving with my parents. The last time we all four drove to Searcy was over a year ago in October, for my 10-year high school reunion, and that trip did NOT go well. Let's just say there was lots of crying, whining and misery. The trip I made by myself with the boys back in May did not go any better (actually I thought it was significantly worse), so we set out two nights ago at 4:30 pm with a fair amount of fear and trepidation.
Much to our surprise, the trip went very smoothly. We didn't hit any traffic at all, despite it being the evening before Thanksgiving. And the boys were great! There was actually NO crying and very little whining. There wasn't as much sleeping as we'd hoped, either, but we will definitely take awake and content little boys over awake and whining little boys. The secret of Caleb's contentment was that he got to watch Wall-E for the first time on our portable DVD player. Why Ethan was content (and awake until 11:00 pm), we have no idea. He slept from 7:30 until around 9:00, but then he was just awake and relatively quiet for the next two hours. We sort of avoided talking to him, afraid to alter whatever was keeping him happy. Maybe he thought we couldn't hear him, like when he is in his crib. Or maybe he thought we didn't know he was awake, and he didn't want to blow his own cover. Whatever the reason was, he finally closed his eyes and conked out about 30 minutes before we arrived at my parents house. Both boys transferred fine, and Marcus and I visited for a little while before turning in for our six hours of sleep.
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