Adventures Traveling with Two 4 Year Olds

After a little over a week away from home visiting family for the Thanksgiving holiday, we finally returned home last night. It was the first time since last Christmas that we had traveled more than a couple hours from home with Jacob and Grace. Our 425 mile trip was quite the adventure!

Fortunately, I had convinced Franco that we needed to buy a separate DVD player from the current one we had (which had 2 screens for the one player). Grace enjoys her princess movies, while Jacob watches only those movies with sword fights, battles, or other "boy stuff." However, I did catch Jacob peeking at Grace's screen one time, watching The Aristocats that she was watching!

The kids developed a new ritual on the trip during bathroom stops -- they decided that it was fun to turn off the lights in the bathrooms we stopped in! Yes, while people were in the other stalls or using the sinks . . . and most commercial bathrooms do not have windows, causing complete and utter darkness! And, of course, they would engage in this ritual when I was far enough away from the light switch to not be able to reach it . . . I challenge you to try this task: go into a public restroom with several stalls, turn out the lights, take 4 or 5 steps away from the light switch, and then try to find your way to the light switch to turn it back on in the now pitch black unfamiliar location! Not an easy task! Oh, and by the way, on those occasions that I was able to find the light switch, I noted that there were still little fingers on it holding it down as I was trying to turn on the lights!

One thing is for sure . . . my children have a playful spirit! And, for any of you who may have been traveling between Illinois and Ohio over the Thanksgiving holiday and, while using unfamiliar restrooms, found yourselves in momentary utter darkness, I'm sorry!