Its Been a Week Since C Has Slept Past 4:50am

Which pretty much sums up the dirty details of the New England Thanksgiving Road Trip! Yes, he was great in the car, he napped good, ate well, but kept waking up earlier. And earlier. AND EARLIER each day. With the last night, waking up at 12:30 am and refusing the go back to sleep until hubby put the Pack N Play next to the couch and slept next to him. Now, we are no strangers to early wake ups, but my son has not woken up in the middle of the night since he was about 11 months old. And CIO/Ferber goes out the door when you are in a hotel or a friend's apartment!

At least each night hubby and I were asleep by 9pm (okay, I'll admit, on Friday night hubby and I went to bed at 8:45 pm. By choice). So hubby getting up at 4:30 or 5am after I fed C, he was pretty well rested. And ate least C napped REALLY well which came in handy during our many driving stints. I expected the car part to be the worst part of this road trip, but it was actually the most relaxing.

On this trip, C ate pretty well. He is into pizza now, and he loves french fries, especially yummy deep fried ones from restaurants and McDonald's. Oh and he enjoyed some McFlurry, but just the ice cream, not the M&Ms. And don't worry, he had his usual fill of fruit and other healthy items too! But C isn't too great in restaurants, especially at dinner. We only ate dinner out twice, Monday night at the California Pizza Kitchen in Foxwoods, where he refused to eat his pizza until we brought it back up to the room, and then on Wednesday we went to Darby's Pub in Belfast and C refused to eat anything, refused to sit in the high chair and refused to play in the empty part of the restaurant, instead wanting to run around where the servers were coming out of the kitchen. Needless to say, the dinners out were not fun. Lunches (Olive Garden & Hillstone's) were better, and we ate breakfast each morning at our hotel, The Comfort Inn in Belfast.

In retrospect, we should have brought more toys along. We had C's favorite, his blue baby doll stroller, and we brought some other small toys & books that fit in the suitcase, but he was pretty bored of these. It was also too cold (well, too windy really) to play outside, so as the days wore on, the boredom got worse and worse. At least we realized that an Elmo DVD could capture his attention for about 15 minutes and also that we could watch Super Why! on youtube.

Now we are well into Christmas planning and Thanksgiving is feeling like a distant memory. Although we seemed to have brought the early wake ups home with us :(