Quinlan has his first long car ride (8+ hours) driving down to Pennsylvania for Christmas. We were quite nervous about the trip as Quinlan does not sleep well in the car. We asked some more experienced parents for car ride tricks and used the following: (1) we decided to travel during the day as we were running a risk of him not sleeping through a late night travel while we might have dozed at the wheel. (2) we packed a bag of toys to hand back to Q one at a time when he got sick of them and tossed them, and (3) we planned for many stops to feed, change and collect toys.
He traveled so well that we made half as many stops as anticipated. While in PA, Quinlan experienced a ton of new things: fire, dogs up close, many new relative, presents, and Christmas trees. He did struggle a bit to sleep in a new place with a lot of new people, but he was still smiling most of the time.
He may have had more fun with the ribbons, bows, wrapping and tissue paper than the presents at the time, but is definitely enjoying the presents now.
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