Vacation

We made it to Virginia. It was a long drive. Ben had a couple of melt downs on the way. It is kind of hard to keep a kid so active entertained while he is strapped into a car seat for so long. We took both laptops and a couple of movies. My laptop played the sound on the dvds but not the video. Lisa's laptop played the movies, but the lid does not open as wide as mine, so I had to hold it funny to allow Ben to watch the movie. He would watch the movie for half an hour at a time and then either get cranky or try to kick or play with the laptop. We need to figure out something better for the next trip. We stopped at a rest stop for lunch. Ben got a apple juice with his meal at Burger King, and at first he would open his mouth and have me squirt it in. Then, I think he was watching us suck our pops through the straws, and he started closing his mouth as the straw went in. Then he started sucking. He is now able to drink through a straw. That did not take too long to learn. He is way to smart.