Tomorrow morning we are packing up and heading home as soon as everyone gets finished eating breakfast. We are planning on driving straight through all 7 hours to Pennsylvania and only stopping when the kids need to eat. I am hoping that the trip will not be too painful especially since Wyatt only has one song that he likes to hear over and over and over again when we are in the truck...The Wheels on the Bus. I can say from experience that it doesn't matter if you pretend not to hear him yelling "Wheels...wheels...wheels" he will dramatically add the gestures to his yelling until you finally decide that listening to the song can't be any worse than him yelling and madly gesturing from the back seat for hours on end. Packing the truck tonight was a monumental task for John and I. We were forced to make decisions like "Which can we live without for a while... Tickle Me Elmo or the toy microwave?" Then I began having conversations with myself like "Well, the microwave does entertain Wyatt for a long time...but he accidentally closes the boys hands in the door sometimes...but Elmo takes more batteries......but the microwave can be used to cook more than just pretend food... Wyatt can put his animals in it... should I really be encouraging him to put animals in the microwave...did I leave a jar of baby food in the microwave after dinner...I'm hungry...I think that I am going to go have a piece of birthday cake." Then John would say "I found room for both Elmo and the microwave" and I would say "What? I'm eating cake" Thus went our packing. I'm sure that we will be forgetting half of what we arrived with, but we are hoping that it is not essential stuff like the Wheels on the Bus cd because that would be a really long 7 hour trip!
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