Road Trip!!

The drive to Kansas City from grandma and grandpas is about 9 hours not including stops. While Jay thought of it as a fun adventure and "no big deal", the thought of a pregnant woman and a 2-year old on a 9+ hour road trip to me sounded like a nightmare. Luckily I was proven wrong!!

Edward did so much better than we both expected and kept himself entertained with his new cars, stickers, books and a very short amount of screen time on "his" iPhone watching videos.  

Grandma and grandpa got him this great travel tray for the trip and it worked out great!! It's nice and soft yet stable enough to roll his cars around on it. 

It also makes for a great sun shield when the sun first comes up over the horizon. "Too bright" he said and this is what we saw. What a goofball. 

Kansas. Flat. Boring. 

We had a "mommy poop in my underpants!" scare along the way and this happened in the parking lot of a gas station somewhere in the middle of America:

False alarm. Boo! He really did great with the whole potty training thing for the whole trip. Used the big pottys and urinals like daddy does. I just put a diaper on him when he was supposed to be napping (which of course did not happen - I mean...road trip!!!!! Why would he?!)

He is such a good traveler! He even would exclaim "road trip!" every now and then. 

We had a great run at one of the rest stops which I thought would for sure tire him out enough for a snooze. 

We made it in 10 hours - about two

hours shorter than we had planned and happily enjoyed dinner and some catching up with Jays brother and his family before heading off to bed.