Well, since Eric was working, I just packed up the boys and took them north on my scanner run.
They had their screens; we had snacks, so I'm calling it a Test Run for our trip in March to Texas. The big boys were off for MLK day, so we had the time to make the run. It ended up being Perfect.
I bribed them, saying if they could behave, I would stop in Castleton on the way home for Legos.
Darned if that technique didn't work.
It actually went quite well. They were happy playing games. If they started to argue, I need only threaten not to stop for Legos. (I set a 10$ limit to pick out ANY 1 thing in the store) Chris did an excellent job of helping out with Jacob while I drove. The only problem we encountered was 10 minutes before our destination, the big boys all had to pee. They couldn't wait. Since I'd gotten a later start (couldn't see to find my glasses) than I'd wanted, we ended up missing Val, who we were going to try to meet at her place. She ended up leaving me the scanner for a drive by. Well, the boys, as you can imagine, were really bummed there were no kids to play with upon arrival at our destination, so I pulled off the next best thing.
We went to McDonald's.
This McD's in Ft. Wayne was always the first stop we'd make when we would drive to Michigan when we were younger. We called it Our McDonald's. Seriously, if I had to pee in Noblesville, I'd hold it until Ft. Wayne, I don't know why. It was just Our McD's. I texted my sister to let her know where we'd stopped for lunch, and she was like, Aww... Yeah, Aww. Now my boys think it's Their McDonald's. And now it has a Playplace. That made their day. Though Jake wanted to play on it, and he's not exactly big enough, so he was our limiting factor, and we hit the road after an hour.
As we were heading out, my phone rang. It was Eric's cousin's wife Anna. They were in town for a seminary convention thing, from Wisconsin! We hadn't seen them since Grandpa's funeral. When she mentioned on facebook they were in Ft. Wayne, and it was clear we were headed there, I wrote and asked for a drive by hugging. The baby was just weeks old when last we saw them, they hadn't been able to come down for Christmas due to church obligations. But when she called, she had some time, and so we popped over.
So we got to stop at Anna's Mom's house and visit. Rudy is now approaching 6 months old and adorable. He has a completely different yet same look from his big sister. She's 6 months older than Jacob... and they are Just barely beginning to interact.
Neither one was real keen on sharing. But both are learning they Have To.
The big boys were happy to play with little kid toys, and just be out of the car for a while.
I was happy to see all this cuteness. It was the Perfect stop.
And they wore themselves out enough to make the trip home.
I had to raise my voice only a little, and they won. They made it to the Lego store.
They each played a bit, making people, picking out items way too expensive, before finally settling on some green Lego Mixels. And then we hit the road. I stopped into the Disney store, just to get pumped up, and amazingly didn't buy anything. For now anyway.
The boys did really well on this trip, so I have high hopes our trip to Texas will be a successful one!
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