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The Ordinary Moments | Sleeping in the Car

By Ourbabyblog @OurBabyBlogx
Ok I know what you're thinking, a child falling asleep in the car, that really is ordinary, but for the first time in 14 MONTHS, Abbie did just that. It was an amazing moment for us, if you can imagine the stress of an over tired baby/toddler, you'll probably know that taking them out in the car is going to be your best option in getting them to drop off, not for us, Abbie point blank refused to sleep in the car since she was about 9 months old, this meant we weren't able to go for family days out as she'd just scream and be pretty inconsolable for the entire journey back, whilst enthusiastically reaching for my tshirt shouting 'BOOBY'. So our days were spent working around nap time, meaning we could go out for the morning but would have to be back for 11.30 and nap time, and not being able to do anything until about 3.30 either..

We had been out for the morning for a little walk and as usual started heading home at around 10.30 and Abbie was unusually quiet, she's usually belting out some sort of cbeebies song or reciting the alphabet and/or numbers, the radio was on and we were just enjoying our drive. Considering she was so quiet I looked over at her to see her little head bopping up and down as though she was drifting off to sleep, she noticed me and sat back upright again, I didn't quite believe it, but although we weren't actually going to let her sleep, we wanted to see if she really would just drift off, and she did, luckily we were about 1 minute away from home so kept her awake for the rest of that, we got inside and got ready for nap time and she fell asleep almost straight away. Suddenly our lives seemed to drastically improve, now we can stop looking at other people having family holidays and days out and feeling envious, now we can do it all, and it feels amazing!

I was completely flabbergasted that she actually fell asleep in the car that I forgot to take a picture, that, and I was pretty emotional about it and welled up! Silly things eh! So the picture for this Ordinary Moments is her sound asleep on the sofa (don't worry, I lie next to her!)

So you can expect to see lots of days out photos soon now we can finally get things back to normal again, so proud of my big girl :)

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The Ordinary Moments | Sleeping in the Car
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