Getting packed up yesterday definitely felt like a major ordeal. I think that's partially due to the fact that some things we have to pack whether the trip is 2 or 12 days long such as the Nap Nanny, pack 'n play, stroller, etc. I also gave the kids baths. I had hoped to take an afternoon nap while the kids napped, but other than a few "cat naps", Ian was awake from when he woke up from his nap (11:30am) until we left (6:15pm). Nadia took a 3 hour afternoon nap (1:00-4:00). YAY! While we were packing I said to Paul that I wanted to get Ian sleeping in a bed (without the Nap Nanny) over the next two months so that we don't need to bring it to Florida in May. However it hit me later that this has saved us from buying a second pack 'n play. I don't plan to transition Nadia to a bed before that time.
The next time we plan to come to Maryland is in May. First we'll come down and visit for a few days while my sister, Wendy, and her kids are here from Chicago, and then we plan to fly out of Baltimore with my parents to Florida. I guess if by that point Ian is flexible enough to sleep with or without the Nap Nanny then he could sleep in it at my parent's house (and Nadia would use our pack 'n play like she did last night), and then we could leave both the Nap Nanny and pack 'n play in MD and have them sleep in cribs provided by the resort once we're in FL. We were going to fly on either AirTran or Southwest to Florida. If we need to bring the Nap Nanny with us then we'd be better off going on Southwest since bags are still free on that airline.
I was fearful that Ian would cry a lot in the car. That certainly was the case with Nadia the first few trips to Maryland. She was not one of those babies who would sleep easily in the car until we started traveling after her bedtime. That only worked for awhile. Lately we had gone back to traveling during the day time as she wasn't sleeping well in the car anymore at night. We weren't sure what time to leave yesterday. We ended up leaving at 6:15pm. Ian was an ANGEL. The only times he cried were when we stopped twice (once for me to go to the bathroom at a gas station and once for Nadia after she threw up). I think if we had made the trip nonstop, he wouldn't have made a peep (in which case we would have arrived in MD at 9:25pm).
Nadia played happily for the first two hours. We let her listen to a new VeggieTales CD the first 1.25 hours. We were trying to encourage her to fall asleep from 7:30 onward. She was yawning but not going to sleep. She drank a sippy cup full of milk while she was in the car, and at 8:15 became very distressed that her milk was all gone. Between that and being overtired, she cried for 15 minutes and got herself so worked up that she threw up ALL OVER herself (we didn't see that coming!). So we had a 20 minute detour including getting off the interstate, changing her pjs, trading her coat for a blanket, and getting back on the interstate. She fell asleep as soon as we got back on I-83 and slept the rest of the way there (one hour). She then was awake for awhile before Paul put her in bed while I was nursing Ian. So on Sunday we're going to leave earlier than we did today - maybe 4:30? That will work better for Nadia, and hopefully Ian will still be a good little traveler.
Last night Nadia was sleeping in the pack 'n play in my old bedroom, which is in the basement. Paul and I were sleeping in the sofa bed in the rec room (next to that bedroom), and Ian was sleeping nearby on top of the dryer in the laundry room. There are no windows in my old bedroom. I had thought maybe we should buy room darkening curtains for Nadia's room, but that doesn't seem to be the problem. Even though she had only slept a total of 8 hours (and only 7 of those were consecutive) - she woke up at 5:30 this morning! Unbelievable! (Later) Whew... she did go back to sleep and slept until 7:30. Maybe I will get those darkening curtains for her room after all.
Ian slept from 11:00pm - 1:45am, 2:30-4:00am, and 4:30-5:30am. Sleeping a total of 5.25 hours in the Nap Nanny is less than usual, but considering he had slept most of our trip (which lasted 3.5 hours), I think that was pretty good. If he sleeps in the car on Sunday, we can keep him up a couple of hours after we arrive back home and maybe that will mean it won't interfere with his night time sleeping. I definitely missed having a 5-6 hour stretch last night. My longest stretch of sleep was less than 3 hours long, and I got 5 hours total. Hopefully I'll get a nap today.
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