my best car trip idea!

i should copy right this! or just share it with my one blog follower...here's a great idea for you sheena!!

so when blake was a baby and we drove a little tiny cavialier (i can't spell..) on long car rides i would fill 3 or 4 baskets full of random toys and books put them in the front seat then hand one back to him.  When it was emptied i would hand him another. this worked great in the cavialier because i could easily reach almost everything he dropped, and refill the baskets.  So anyway, this evolved to lunch boxes.  I started filling lunchboxes and keeping them under the seat in the van, then one long drive pull them out.  I've had to start being more selective about what i put in them as the kids get older and because these toys often fall out of the van.  With one baby in a car everything stayed contained but 2 in a van, things roll around and fall out. SO anyway! this is a great thing to do with random packs of 4 crayons, mcdonalds toys, all that werid little crap that you don't want in your house! i don't do this for every trip, my kids can handle 2 hours without these.  Trips to calgary i usually plan for nap time just let them use the dvd player or i pad. but longer then 2 hours they get crazy! so here's my lasted lunch boxes for our next trip!

 this is blakes, there's a flashlight, stickers, a dino, a robot, stamps, a car, sunglasses, pictures, keys, crayons, activity book and the red heart diplo which keeps blake very occupied! and we got it for free from a free lego build at toys r us.

 kayla's is very similar, she has a necklace, pictures, flashlight, glasses, stickers, stamps, crayons, note pad, diplo, finger puppet.

 here is the 4 i packed. there's mini robert munsch books in the smaller ones, bandaids, pipecleaners, a sucker, seashells, a mini ball shooter game, crayons, a fruit snack in the egg, i don't remember what else is in those!

They are all packed and ready to go!  i would like to pack 2 more so that there is 2 for the way there and 2 different ones for the way back. i packed them pretty early...we are not going until the middle of july but these are the things i do to avoid homework and house work! and yet i still feel 'productive'.