Memories...

As we were driving over to Melinda and Will's tonight, a complacent young man getting ready for a nap in the backseat, Nat and I suddenly remembered the way we had to drive back in September. One-month-old Jack, who hated his car seat, and somehow knew when we were approaching a stop light even before we started to slow down...we became very innovative in our attempts to avoid his screaming. We learned to swerve madly during lane changes, accelerate very quickly at green lights, slow very gradually at red lights so we were never fully stopped. He screamed loudest when we stopped. The trip from home to the highway was a nerve wracking 20 minutes of praying for green lights and enduring the crying until we got on the highway and he went to sleep. We mastered the art of bouncing Jack's carseat, of reaching over and getting the pacifier into his mouth with one arm while driving. You know, we never thought to write down how it felt to drive back then, because I think we honestly believed that was the way we'd drive from then on...It's amazing how much he's changed. Thank god!