Dan and Jen’s Blog

Here’s a few ways you know you’re travelling with a toddler in a compact car, especially at night when she needs to be sleeping:

• you change lanes in such a way that you strategically avoid the iridescent bumps
• you take your jacket off with your seat belt on because if you remove your seatbelt while the car is in motion, it’ll start dinging (stupid safety features)
• you use hilarious hand gestures and copious whispering as you and your spouse try to communicate vitally important information such as “I’m about to pee my pants” and “If you don’t look at her, she won’t wake up!”
• you’re now thoroughly irritated with the large number of streetlights along our interstate highway system
• you endure endlessly looping Baby Einstein Lullaby Classics
• you limit your husband’s liquid intake so as to prevent bathroom stops while the baby is (finally!) asleep
• you find that you can twist your arm with Gumby-like flexibility to feed your crabby child Cheerios
• you wish that you had telekinetic powers so you could summon that missing pacifier directly to your open, waiting palm (Accio pacifier! would work, too)
• you huddle under your jacket to use your phone so the brightness from the screen won’t wake her up