The Super-Long Road Trip

On Friday, we spent 8.5 hours in the car driving to central Mass... Shoshanna did a very good job with the drive - lots of fun with toys and books and drawing, and when she got really very tired, she got her pacifier. On Saturday we went to Boredom War and saw lots of friends who we hadn't seen since our move to Buffalo 11 months ago. Dinner with other friends Saturday night, and then home again on Sunday (when Shoshanna did equally well with the drive). We had some major toddler-moments, particularly when Shoshanna was having to be kept out of the grownups' stuff and didn't have the space she's used to having to run. Even though she loves seeing people, she was definitely happy to get home and be allowed to run free.

Despite the rain and muck on Saturday, we escaped with relatively few bug bites (S has maybe 3 or 4, I have probably the same number, and Matthew got the worst of it - they decided his ankles were extra-tasty, even through his socks.

Saturday night Lisa and I were sitting on the couch with Shoshanna looking at a book full of pictures of hourses. Suddenly Shoshanna starts playing peek-a-boo. Lisa was very confused, but I noticed immediately that the horse on the page we were looking at had a long mane, which was falling down over its eye. Peek-a-boo, horse! On the drive out, she was looking at Soft as a Kitten and suddenly kissed the book. I was confused until I realized she was looking at a page that has a picture of a daddy kissing a daughter ("Daddy's moustache is rough. It tickles... just like grass does.").

And now she's waking up from her nap, so I must run...