This morning, Elizabeth offered to feed Susie her oatmeal for me. She actually didn’t do too bad–and I managed to eat my own breakfast in record time!
Books in our queue
Derek:
The Warden, Anthony Trollope
The Upside-Down Constitution, Michael S. Greve
Emily:
What God Has to Say about Our Bodies, Sam Allberry
The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy, David Cannadine
To Say Nothing of the Dog, Connie Willis
Tommy:
Flowers from a Puritan's Garden, Charles Spurgeon
Master and Commander, Patrick O'Brian
Elizabeth:
The Lord of the Rings trilogy, J.R.R. Tolkien
David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
Susanna:
Spindle, W. R. Gingell
A Conspiracy of Kings, Megan Whalen Turner
Janie:
Snow Treasure, Marie McSwiggin
Dancing Shoes, Noel Streatfeild
Annie:
Faithful Friends: Favorite Stories of People in the Bible, Marcy and Michael Kelleher
The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe, C. S. Lewis-
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so i have yet to figure out how to reply to people’s comments on my own blog- so in reading your blog tonight, I figured I would include my reply here! First- your girls are too cute! I mean, Tommy is cute too, but something about the two girls together is pretty darn cute! Susanna seems to be loving it too!
for our eight hour car ride with one stop- left at a strategic time- after lily’s morning nap, before lunch. we ate lunch in the car for something to do and to eliminate a stop. i only let tripp drink one little bottle of milk. then they both fell asleep for their afternoon naps. then we stopped after that sometime (around 5 hour mark). Tripp went to the bathroom then, and then we just let him watch movies most of the rest of the way (i have decided that i don’t care how much TV/movies he watches whenever we are in the car cause then i don’t let him watch TV for a long time afterwards to make up for it. evens out in my mind 🙂 ). lily slept one more time and whenever we were in traffic, which seems to occur during all our road trips, i would take her out of her seat and change her diaper on my lap and then put her back in (also changed it at our stop). and then we were home by dinner time! we would just feed her a bottle whenever in the car- we put the middle seat in our middle row in so that way one of us could sit back there and be buckled in but still feed her/change her/entertain her. when we got home, i made sure Tripp drank a lot at dinner to make up for the lack of drinking during the car ride. that was the gist of it!
That is amazing. I am totally with you on TV during car trips, but unfortunately, Lizzie’s attention span is only two hours max, and with the carsickness, we’d not want to go longer than that, anyway. We usually stop for lunch, but maybe next time we’ll have to try your scheme!