Travelling, Toddlers and Twisties (baby ice)

The three of us, Pete, Enya and myself went to Sydney last weekend to see our gorgeous new neice LILY (and her parents of course), who has just come all the way from China.  Taking what we now see as a huge gamble, we decided to travel by car with Miss Two without the aid of any narcotics or anaesthetics.  Miss Two did remarkably well for  the first couple of hours, but once the novelty had worn off of “look at all those trees, and we’re going to see Lily”, and the realisation had set in that we weren’t just popping up to the shops,  Enya started cracking it.  So from then on in it was bribery and cohersion, including ‘Twisties’, which Enya had never had before.  Our plan worked and we made it without too much trouble — we thought!  Once arriving at my sisters we witnessed what must have been a combination of food colouring, pent up energy, excitiement at a new environment and people. She was a one baby show! As concerned as I was that she must be exhausted, and badly needed to sleep, I’ve never laughed so hard (not for a long time anyway)!! We ended up giving her a miniscule dose of sedative which eventually knocked her out and she slept until 9am the next morning; and thankfully was back to normal.