Are we there yet?

I'll get new pictures up soon, but we're still playing catch-up after being out of town over the weekend.
We had such a great trip down to the St. Louis area, where Brian's family lives. Ellie got some quality time with her grandparents and great-grandparents. And she did great during the car rides.

Brian and I had a little added stress during the drive time, though, because we brought both dogs along on this trip. It was the first time we've traveled with all three of our "babies," and it felt a little bit like a circus. Muzzy was more than happy to ride up front in my lap and she was thrilled my belly is no longer too big to accommodate her :) But Radar was riding in the back with Ellie.
We started the trips in the usual manner, giving each dog half of a Benadryl to ease the canine carsickness... which Radar is very prone to have. With the pups getting their medicine, we at least weren't worried about one of them barfing on Ellie.
But that didn't stop them from climbing on her! Despite the comforter we laid out for Radar across 2/3s of the back seat, he decided the baby blanket laying across Ellie in her car seat looked much more comfortable. I looked back a couple times and found him circling ("nesting") on top of the car seat — and Ellie! We both yelled at him and shoo-ed him away. And things were good for a little bit. But then we went through the McDonalds drive-thru... a very dangerous venture in the minds of our pups. And, unfortunately, Ellie's car seat was on the side by the food pick-up window. So once again she had some dogs stepping on top of her car seat, as they barked at the very threatening fast food worker trying to give us the food we had just paid for. Amazingly, both incidents didn't bother our little girl at all. She didn't even wake up.
I think the dogs did better on our return trip... though Radar did try to ride in the car seat again with Ellie at one point. It's just going to take a little time for them to get used to this new arrangement. The "practice babies" have to make room now for our real baby. This family is a little insane sometimes, but I wouldn't trade it :)