He's a Traveling Man
My Aunt brought my Grandmother down this weekend to meet Julian. It was a lot of fun and great to see my Aunt and Grandma. I think we have some good pictures I hope to post soon.
Julian and I had our first “trip” yesterday. I was very nervous about it especially since it was sans Bryan. My sister was also in town visiting from Florida and she was driving up to see my other Grandparents for the day and I felt that was a good opportunity to tag along. But as you know, Julian has a 20 minute time limit in the car, but we survived yesterday. It was very tiring though. Somehow the 2.5 hour drive there turned into almost 4 hours. My sister drove while I rode in the back with Julian.
Fortunately Julian held strong and with some entertaining and effort on my part, slept most of the time. The last 20 minutes we're pretty rough so my sister started flying on back roads, meanwhile I'm trying to keep him calm and not throw up at the same time. We get there and my Grandparents we're so happy to see him. So it was worth it. He was pretty "rutchy" most of the day as my mom would say, not sure if that's a real word but it's a good description. Oddly I know what she means by it. It was exhausting. I think the car ride plus being out of his element and me without all of my tools to soothe made it a little more work than normal. I had my sling which he would have been fine in the whole day but they actually wanted to see and visit with him so I didn't want him cocooned up the whole time. So I kept him in there for just a little bit and they were so impressed with how calm it made him. I CAN NOT LIVE WITHOUT MY SLING. He loves it, I love it, and everyone we're around loves it. We did have a lovely time none the less. It was good seeing my Grandparents.
The ride home he slept from the moment we got in until 10 minutes to my moms. And yes, this time the 2.5 hour ride actually took 2.5 hours. But man, those last 10 minutes we're hard core! He was fed up, I don't blame him, it was such a long day for a 6 week old. He doesn't use a pacifier so the last couple minutes I got him to suck on my finger and we managed to make it to my mom's before he exploded again. I knew he was starving.
He and I FINALLY made it back to our own house. He was just tired and hard to soothe by that point. I felt bad for Bryan who hadn't seen him in so long and he finally does and he's beyond rutchy. But Julian and I hopped in the bath together and soaked our stress away. He loves his bath time. Now it’ll just take me a month to recover and I have no desire to hop in the car anytime soon. I’m not even looking forward to driving the 25 minutes to my 6 week follow up appointment today. That’s why we like the city, cars are optional!
Julian and I had our first “trip” yesterday. I was very nervous about it especially since it was sans Bryan. My sister was also in town visiting from Florida and she was driving up to see my other Grandparents for the day and I felt that was a good opportunity to tag along. But as you know, Julian has a 20 minute time limit in the car, but we survived yesterday. It was very tiring though. Somehow the 2.5 hour drive there turned into almost 4 hours. My sister drove while I rode in the back with Julian.
Fortunately Julian held strong and with some entertaining and effort on my part, slept most of the time. The last 20 minutes we're pretty rough so my sister started flying on back roads, meanwhile I'm trying to keep him calm and not throw up at the same time. We get there and my Grandparents we're so happy to see him. So it was worth it. He was pretty "rutchy" most of the day as my mom would say, not sure if that's a real word but it's a good description. Oddly I know what she means by it. It was exhausting. I think the car ride plus being out of his element and me without all of my tools to soothe made it a little more work than normal. I had my sling which he would have been fine in the whole day but they actually wanted to see and visit with him so I didn't want him cocooned up the whole time. So I kept him in there for just a little bit and they were so impressed with how calm it made him. I CAN NOT LIVE WITHOUT MY SLING. He loves it, I love it, and everyone we're around loves it. We did have a lovely time none the less. It was good seeing my Grandparents.
The ride home he slept from the moment we got in until 10 minutes to my moms. And yes, this time the 2.5 hour ride actually took 2.5 hours. But man, those last 10 minutes we're hard core! He was fed up, I don't blame him, it was such a long day for a 6 week old. He doesn't use a pacifier so the last couple minutes I got him to suck on my finger and we managed to make it to my mom's before he exploded again. I knew he was starving.
He and I FINALLY made it back to our own house. He was just tired and hard to soothe by that point. I felt bad for Bryan who hadn't seen him in so long and he finally does and he's beyond rutchy. But Julian and I hopped in the bath together and soaked our stress away. He loves his bath time. Now it’ll just take me a month to recover and I have no desire to hop in the car anytime soon. I’m not even looking forward to driving the 25 minutes to my 6 week follow up appointment today. That’s why we like the city, cars are optional!
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