road trip **now with pictures**

so how does an almost 19 month old keep busy on a 7 1/2 hour drive from nashville to hilton head??? glad you asked...since the portable dvd player wouldn't load any of the discs, i reached into my mary poppins inspired bag and found 2 strands of beads, a purse-sized lint roller, plastic spoons, a singing frog, coloring book, colored pencils, 2 lift-the-flap books from the target dollar bins (yay!), a calculator (shhhh, caleb thinks it's a cell phone), 2 tonka trucks, a travel size maga doodle, bubbles, a pinwheel, and a partridge in a pear tree--whew!!! if you currently do not have a toddler, or it's been a couple of years, the contents may sound strange, but trust me, those $2 strands of beads that i bought off of a street vendor at a ut football game have paid for themselves a thousand times over. they completely fulfill caleb's need to put on/take off/do-it-myself...they were good for at least 30 mins. of content riding. i took a couple of cute pics of caleb in the truck (think sticking plastic spoon in the holes of his crocs), but left the usb cable to my camera at home. i know that you're thinking, "WHY DIDN'T SHE JUST PUT IT IN THAT STUPID BAG OF HERS?!?", but when you're trying to out think a 19 month old sometimes you just forget the obvious...now if i could only find my other blue flipflop...