Addy did just fine the rest of last week, so we went ahead with our plans to go visit family in IL for Easter. We split the trip up so we took 2 days going up and 2 days coming back. Addy seems to have about a 150-200 mile per day tolerance for being in her car seat, which can be stretched by another 50-100 miles if someone sits in the back seat and entertains her. We did pretty well at coming up with an hour and a half of entertainment, but we had to get a little creative and make up our own verses to "The Wheels on the Bus." My bus always ends up with an entire zoo's worth of critters on it (the ducks on the bus go "quack, quack, quack"...) but Daddy's bus had various Star Trek critters on it (the captain on the bus says, "warp speed!"...)
Speaking of silly songs to sing to your 5 month old, we're also fans of the "Throw 'em Out the Window" song (a.k.a., "The Defenestration Song"). So far, my favorite extra verse is:
Lizzy Borden took an axe
And gave her father 40 whacks
When she saw what she had done
She threw him out the window
The window, the window, the second story window
When she saw what she had done
She threw him out the window
