Oh what a night. And it started out so good. Really, it did.
We went to Pato’s work to eat with my sister and her husband. It was soooo much fun! I don’t get to hang out with my sister like I would like too because she works so much, I have 3 kids, her 2 dogs..ok, we won’t blame the dogs, though it seems every time she leaves Daisy alone, she tears the garbage all over the place, she seems to have a particular fondness for the bathroom garbage, but I go off topic as usual.
Alyce slept all the way there. (It’s like a 35-40 minute drive) She woke up about half way through the meal and ate some beans, rice, pico de gallo, she loves all that stuff. And she was in such a good mood. I gave her a little of my sopapilla. Jordan and Katiana were on their best behavior. It was a nice night.
Then, I put Alyce in her car seat. This child is thoroughly opposed to her infant carrier. At least, I’m hoping it’s just the carrier and not all car seats in general. My gosh. She started crying when I put her in it, but when I picked up the carrier she was ok. Which is normal. As soon as I put her in the van, she started screaming, which again, is normal. Usually, after a couple of minutes, she is fine. So, we turn on the radio, which makes her scream louder. I turned it off, and we are singing the, “Oh you can’t get to heaven, in a rocking chair” song, which usually does the trick, nope. At this point, we’ve driven the 9 miles from the restaurant to the interstate and I go to get on. I was getting so flustered by the way she was carrying on, I got on going the wrong direction. (I was going with traffic the right way, just got on going south instead of north.) Now, let’s stop here and say, Pato works a ways from us, and I don’t know that area at all. I can get to his work and back without taking any turns.
I got off at the next exit, and of course it isn’t a nice easy just turn the car around and get back on. No, there’s medians, and I have to get on the road, go to a side road and turn around. No lights out here in the country to see how close I am to a road. Every time I get close to a road, my GPS on my phone goes, ding ding ding, new route, and then as I go past a road it says, make a u turn on this road, well, nice if I could have seen the road, even nicer if you would have told me that I had so many feet to turn. Then it says, drive 5 miles and make a u-turn. 5 miles? With a screaming baby? I looked around me, no cars (or driveways) and did a u-turn in the middle of the road.
Got on the interstate again, and Alyce is now making this low gutteral sound, like she’s trying to scream, but can’t breathe. So, I’m screaming at Jordan to turn the light on and make sure she’s breathing. He turns it on as she pukes. Cleans her up. She’s still making that noise. I’m trying to find a place to pull off. I’m yelling at the kids to make her stop crying. Sing, make faces, clap, whistle, whatever. And they start finding over who gets to help her. Not you do it, no you do it, it’s I’m gonna do it, I’m gonna do it. I was just about it tears. Finally, I see an exit and pull off on the side of the road, turn on my hazards, snatch her out of her car seat, looking all over to see if there is something that is hurting her, what is wrong?
No, she’s fine as soon as I am holding her. Fine as can be. Ok, so we are still sitting on the side of the road like 20 miles from home. Am I just supposed to stay there? I checked her car seat to make sure there was nothing in it to hurt her. Put her back in, and the screaming started. Guess what happens when I go to get back on the interstate? Yep, I got lost, again. And again. I just kept getting turned around. No idea where I was, I couldn’t hear my GPS over the baby screaming. And let’s say, I owed my bigger children an apology when we got home. I finally found my way back on the interstate and she starts doing the wierd scream again. I was flipping out. Seriously, nothing like thinking your baby can’t breathe while you are driving down the interstate to stress you out completely. I know she was fine. She just wanted to be held, but lord, it was killing me. I was getting so flustered. I called Pato, who got on speaker phone with Alyce and was talking to her and trying to calm her down. It was working until um, he dropped the call. (Thanks Sprint! Appreciate it!) Then she started flipping out again. Once I got to my area, I was fine, but let me say, I’m not going to be taking her on any road trips again. I can handle the normal screaming when I’m driving, that sound she was making. I told Pato, if I didn’t get myself under control I was going to get into a car accident I was getting so stressed. Then Kat started crying – mommy’s gonna get us in an accident. Seriously felt like crap when I pulled in the drive way.
Parked the car, jumped out, took Alyce completely out of the carrier to take her in, guess what? She was fine. Even happy smiling at me when I got her in my arms. ARGH! Not happy.
So, I told Pato to get his butt to the store after work and get Kat the booster she wanted (We’ve been waiting for Miss Skinny to finally weigh 30 lbs to get her a booster). Alyce is now going into Kat’s convertable. Pato adjusted the straps and put it rear facing last night. And won’t Kat be excited to get up and see this:
Ooooh, cup holders! LOL
That’s the car seat she wanted. I’m thinking, it’s cuz it’s pink and red, you know, like Strawberry Shortcake? (Everything is related to Strawberry Shortcake when it comes to Katiana.) She picked this booster out last time we went to Wal-Mart. And I told her I would talk to daddy. She’s just now 32 lbs. And these boosters, you have to be 30 lbs to use them. (She’s 3 1/2)
So, let’s hope that miss Alyce likes the new to her car seat. And if she doesn’t, let’s say thank goodness I only have to drive a mile to her dr today. she’s got her 9 month check up this morning. I can handle the crying for 2 minutes.
Relax, Heather. My shoulders are getting all tense just telling you guys about it.
Jordan’s got soccer practice tonight which is a little farther away, I’m just dreading sticking her in the car again. And people wonder why I don’t go anywhere. That’s why!
All righty! If you made it through that, you rock! Have a great day! I intend to turn it around and have one too!
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