This post is coming to you from Wichita, Kansas. The boys, Maya, Nana and I drove to Kansas City last Friday and now we are 3 hours south in Wichita. We left at 3:00 am (yes, that's AM!) on Friday morning. We figured we could knock some hours off of our 12 hour trip while the kids were sleeping. To our surprise, the boys stayed awake until 5:00ish. They just sat in their car seats quietly, with binky's and babies. After awhile, they took a nap, we got them breakfast, and watched several movies. Around noonish, we stopped at a McDonald's play area for about an hour. After they burned off some energy, we piled in the car again and arrived in KC 2 hours later. The trip was super easy. Maya only complained if she needed to eat or wanted to look at someone. Lola was a little bent out of shape because she couldn't ride shotgun! Every time Lorraine had to get in the back to feed Maya, Lola was right there to take her seat.
We stayed at Aunt Kim's house Friday to Monday. The boys were in heaven playing with Brooke and Blake. And, of course, they loved their dogs and cats, too. Saturday went to the park and saw Grandpa John and Terri. Sunday morning we saw our friend Charlie for breakfast, then went to Brooke's volleyball game in the afternoon. Monday morning we headed down to Nana and Papa's house.
Besides the fact that the boys have been going to bed later than usual, not taking naps, drinking lots of pop (thanks Aunt Kim!) and have major diaper rash, things have gone very well. Maya, of course, has been the perfect baby and is such a joy to be around.
Grandma Moorefield and I are planning on leaving Saturday afternoonish to start traveling back home. We will probably stop overnight in St.Louis, then finish our trip on Sunday. Since going home will be a 14 hour drive, we figured we wouldn't attempt to do it in one day.
