Tillman at Danielle's rehearsal dinner with Brian, friend from grad school
On Tillman's two month "birthday" (11/12/10), we took a 9 hour drive to Virginia for a wedding. As many of you read while I was pregnant, we were invited to my friend, Danielle's, wedding (remember this post and this one too?). We have been anticipating the trip for awhile, and we were so glad we got to go. Everything worked out great!
Last Friday, we left the house at 5:45AM to hit the road. Tillman does wonderful in the morning, so we know the sooner we got on the road the better. Our first stop was South of the Border. Nick was so curious about the place, so we decided to make that our 9AM stop. This place is a DUMP, but it had gas (before hitting the price hike of NC), bathroom (yuck...flies...nasty), and a parking lot (full of creepy people), so we could get out and feed Tillman.
Tillman for the most part during the drive slept, which was probably best for everyone. We made it to our destination (YaYa Katy's house) at 3:15PM. It was pretty good timing!
Tillman in Nick's lap at the rehearsal.
He was supposed to wear this outfit home from the hospital...totally too big! :-)
My mom is part of a group we call the "YaYa's." This group is made up of 4 girlfriends she has had since childhood. One of the YaYa's, Katy, lived 5 minutes from where Danielle got married. We put "two and two together" over the summer when my mom was visiting Katy with the other YaYa's. (As you read in the first post about the wedding, we didn't know how we were going to go to the wedding with Tillman and find a babysitter.) YaYa Katy and husband Gene babysat Tillman while they watch the Carolina Gamecocks beat the Florida Gators.
Sleepy T right before dinner started
Tillman got a good report card from his sub-grandparents for the weekend! Besides him drinking down all the milk we had for him in the frig, he was a good boy while we were at the wedding! He was eating every two hours while we were gone! Tillman must have been growing. Katy and Gene also got to witness Tillman's love for his swing. Yes, people we travel with it! Nick had no issue with dismantling it at 5AM to take it with us on the trip. We know that Tillman would have major separation anxiety (= crying, not sleeping, mommy and daddy needing to drink heavily to cope with Tillman, etc) without it! Like I have said before, we can't live without the swing!
I know it probably appears that my child has a pig nose,
but I really need to work on the angle that I take photos...I swear he doesn't.
We ventured back to Charleston on Sunday around 9:30AM. The road trip back was HARD. Tillman was more cranky, so we had to stop more (we found the key is getting on the road as early as possible). We ended up getting back to Charleston around 8:00PM. This road trip was good practice for the holidays. We have another road trip to Ohio planned, and that one is a few hours longer. I am sure "T man" will do just fine on that one too!
Tillman slept great on Sunday night. I think he was just as worn out from the trip as were we. He probably wore us all out with his hysteric crying from I-95 to home! (no, he wasn't hungry, just doesn't like the dark!)
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