Alex Drummond’s 5-Hour Ranch Highway Journey With Child Sofia Was a Journey

If you’ve been maintaining with the Drummond household on social media, you in all probability noticed that Alex Drummond and child Sofia had such a enjoyable weekend visiting ReeRee and Papa (aka Ree Drummond and her husband, Ladd) on the ranch. Although their keep was crammed with laughter, playtime, and even an interpretive kitchen dance, the automobile journey from Dallas to Pawhuska, Oklahoma, was a bit much less thrilling.

Since Mauricio was on a boys’ journey along with his dad and brother over the weekend, Alex determined to pack up the automobile and make the five-hour trek to Drummond Ranch for the primary time since Christmas. But braving the highway journey solo turned out to be “quite the journey” for Alex, in accordance with a latest Instagram story. “Sofia and I did the 5-hour road trip SOLO yesterday for the first time in awhileeee,” Alex advised her followers within the caption of the clip she posted on Friday. “I was nervous haha, IYKYK roadtripping with toddlers is an adventure!”

In her video, Alex defined that she was cautious of the lengthy drive for a number of causes. For one, she hasn’t taken that highway journey with Sofia and with out Mauricio in a very long time, and now that Sofia is older, these varieties of enclosed settings aren’t essentially enjoyable for an antsy toddler. “She’s just a lot more squirmy these days, and she does not like to sit still,” Alex famous in her Instagram story.

Then, there’s the truth that Alex needed to entertain Sofia whereas steering the automobile, slightly than dividing and conquering with Mauricio on deck. “It’s really hard when it’s just me and her…because when Mauricio and I are together and we’re roadtripping with her, one of us can sit in the back with her and hand her toys, hand her snacks, help keep her entertained, but when it’s just me driving, I can’t do that,” Alex defined.

Alex hoped that Sofia would take a nap for a lot of the journey, however since Sofia was asleep for under 45 minutes of the five-hour journey, Alex had to determine tips on how to maintain her one-year-old occupied on the fly. “I was playing all these different playlists, trying all these different things,” Alex recalled. “I was passing her back snacks, passing her back water bottles. But the hard thing is that she loves to throw things out of her carseat, and then I’m driving, so I can’t pick it up.”

After some time, Alex determined to give up and let Sofia cry it out as an alternative of attempting to appease her. But by the top of the journey, when the end line was in sight, Alex caved and tried her last-ditch effort: her cellphone. “For the last 30 minutes of the drive, I just handed her back my phone, because it was dark out and she was really losing it, and I was like, ‘You know what? We just gotta make it through the last 30 minutes,’” Alex stated. “So mom of the year, I passed her back my phone open with Spotify with some of her music that she likes to listen to, and she was like pressing shuffle, and that kept her entertained for the 30 minutes, but woo, that was quite the journey.”

Alex, your endurance is admirable!