Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Pushed to the Limit

Car trips with Noah are often challenging because he hates sitting still and constantly needs something to entertain him. He is often whining, complaining, and asking for things we don't have. We have stacks of books, games, doodlepads, etc. in the car to keep him halfway busy. The only thing he cares to look at outside the window are farm animals and water. Needless to say, we don't pass too many farm animals in the bay area so he is often seeking other means of entertainment! 

The other afternoon we were driving to the store and Sophie is doing her best to help Noah, offering to share her toys with him. He will ask for a book, Sophie will give it to him and then he'll throw it down on the ground. He'll ask for his hat, Sophie will give it to him and he'll throw it on the ground again. This goes on and on forever with him asking for things and Sophie graciously giving it to him.....finally Sophie is completely fed up and yells at Tim and me, "I CAN'T TAKE THIS ANYMORE!!!"

Shortly after we arrived to Tim's golf course and we took some suckers from his office. Yup, I totally gave in and he was double fisted with two dum-dums on the way home......we all enjoyed some peace and quiet! 

6 comments:

OSU 98 said...

Desparate times call for desparate measures. I still don't understand why you can't just drug kids when you want them to be good. :)

The Monroes said...

it is all about choosing your battles! I love Sophie's breaking point, she had to put that out there.

Lori said...

At least he is easing you into it nice and slow. I'll let you figure out what "it" is. I'm lovin' this :-)

The Wright's said...

How funny that he loves farm animals. His Grandma was big on cows - which she called dows. She loved cows and was going to one day own a farm with lots of cows of all colors, purple, pink, etc. They would have a barn with carpeting, and bathrooms! Now look at her - she loves business and travels all over the world!

cpy said...

Too funny, Aunt Cricket....Noah calls cows "dows" also! It must be the Italian in him;)

Lori said...

Okay enough with the dows already (and I wanted multi-color-polka- dot cows)