Memory Time

I wish so much that I had stumbled into the world of blogging when Jacob was a baby.  I had endless days stretched before me with only one baby to manage.  I remember watching the clock all day, waiting for it to be time for Trevor to come home.  Living in CA, I was away from family and hadn't really made any friends yet since we had him right after we moved there, so I didn't have much to do.  I made almost daily trips to the Safeway across the street.  I loaded Jacob up in the stroller and off we went.  I would buy only what I needed to for the day.  I didn't want to plan too far ahead because I would want a reason to take another trip to Safeway the next day.  My point being, I had LOTS of free time and I would have loved to invest it into a blog about my firstborn.  Especially since most of the memories we have of that time is through our pictures, which isn't saying much because I wasn't as obsessed about taking pictures at that point in our lives.  I didn't start my blog until Jacob was 4 and Hunter was about 18 months old.  So I feel like there is this huge chunk of memories missing from our family journals (which is what I turn my blog into each year).  So, the other day, I was driving and Adam was crying.  I had the thought to turn on the music, it seems to quiet him down.  It did just that.  Then I had a memory about Hunter.  Before our Tahoe, we had a Dodge caravan.  Before I continue with this memory, I'm going to go a little farther down memory lane.

I was so excited when we got this.  We upgraded from a Ford Focus (which is now Trevor's car) and sold the Sentra.  After I had Hunter, it was pretty tight in that back seat with his bulging infant carrier and Jacob's car seat.  The passenger seat had to be moved up quite a bit to even fit Hunter's seat in.  It was not ideal.  The van didn't have key less entry or a CD player, which was perfectly fine with me.  I was only interested in space.  I felt like we could sprawl out and breathe in there!  Instead of a CD player, we had a cassette player.  After a few months of only having the radio available, I thought my kids would enjoy listening to stories on tape.  When I was younger, we had Disney stories on tape that went with books.  I found the exact same ones on eBay for my kids.  The books never got much use, but they loved listening to the tapes.  The one we listened to the most was the story of Bambi.  I'm not sure why they chose this as a favorite, but they always asked for it.  When Hunter was upset while we were driving, the only thing that would calm him down was Bambi.  Those of you who know Hunter, know he can be frequently emotional.  It has always been this way. 

We listened to that Bambi story so much I'm pretty sure I have it memorized.  I had completely forgotten about our Bambi times until then.  So, as I have random memories, I am going to record them here in hopes of piecing together some of those lost years of memories with my first 2!