Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Camping

Pachaug State Forest May 13-14, 2010
A few weeks ago Jared took a couple of days off work so we could have some family time. We decided to take Addi camping. We hadn't been camping since before I got pregnant with Addi.
Addi thought it wasgreat and was dirty within min of arriving when she thought the fire pit made a fun little sand box.
Daddy had to do most of the setting up the camp since mom was 8 months pregnant, but Addi decided she would help him set up the tent.
All set up. Addi loved the tent and thought it was a little play house. I think we will be needing a new tent soon since we barely fit in a double air matteress and Addi's pack-n-play.
After Camp was all set up we headed over to the beach at the lake. We built sand castles, threw rocks in the water, and tried to caught tiny fish in our bucket.
We had fun chasing bubbles.
Even mommy waded into the water. Checkout the huge 33 week belly. Some people thought I was crazy for going camping, but it really wasn't that bad. I may not have slept all that well, but its not like I sleep well at home.
After the beach we decided to go on a little hike around the pond. Addi wanted to be just like daddy with a hat and sunglasses. On one of our hikes I got a stick to help me walk. Addi being the copy cat that she is found her own stick to help her walk to bad it was about 2 in tall and made it more difficult to walk so daddy found her the perfect walking stick to be just like mommy.
We had this cage thing to put Tito in and Addi wanted to be in it with him. I am sure people passing by our campsite thought we were cruel parents for caging our toddler with the dog but it was her choice she even ate her dinner in there with Tito.
Daddy's chair has slowly been breaking everytime we use it and it finally gave up and completely broke. I think daddy needs a new one for Father's Day.
After we roasted our hot dogs for dinner we read Curious George Goes Camping (Addi loves George) and then roasted marshmellows like George.
Addi's first smore. YUM! After desert we slept in a tent like George. Addi went down in her crib ok but half way though the night woke up calling for mommy. So, she ended up in bed with us. So we had daddy, pregnant mommy, Addi and Tito all on a double air mattress. A little cozy, but it kept us all warm since it rained all night. Despite it raining all night and our fire wood and matches were left out in the rain Jared was still able to start a fire in the morning to cook us breakfast.
Since the morning was still rainy we went for a little drive to checkout the beaches in Rhode Island.
The afternoon was perfect weather so we went on more hikes, relaxed and rolled around in the dirt before packing up and heading home.

1 comment:

Tawnya said...

That does look fun!! Way to be adventurous!