Shush!

Solvei is starting to be very cranky if she doesn’t get to sleep when she’s tired, and she doesn’t like to sleep in the car. When she gets cranky in her car seat she squirms and whines/wails, like she’s uncomfortable.

We went out to run a few errands this morning and by the time we finished it was just after lunch time and right at nap time. Before we could make it home Solvei started wailing in the back seat. I tell her “it’s okay”, “we’ll be home in a minute”, give her her blanket, give her a toy, whatever I can with what’s in the car to keep her from getting too mad. Nothing really helped and she just sounded grumpy and pathetic. We were nearly home so I quit trying to console her.

After a few minutes, one of the times that Solvei whimpers, we hear Nels shush her! And for the rest of the ride home, every time she whined, he would shush her. I couldn’t help but crack up. With one of the shushes I looked back and he even had his finger up to his mouth!