We made our first attempt at camping with a 20 month old this past weekend at Palmetto State Park near Gonzales, Texas. We limited this first trip to one night so that we could slowly ease Bella into the routine change. Despite the
pouty picture, Bella really enjoyed herself and was a lot of fun, just not too cooperative in taking this picture. She had too much fun to go to sleep right away, but then slept through the night (even with all of the coyotes howling and cold air) up until about 04:30 when she wanted to walk around the tent in her bare feet. It was tough for us for about 45 minutes, but then she crawled into our sleeping bag and fell back asleep until about 07:00.
Bella was very helpful (most of the time), and sometimes too helpful. She wanted to help with unpacking the car, at setting up the tent, and cooking breakfast. We have already learned the word "hot", so just telling Bella that the fire is hot is enough for her to know that she doesn't want to touch it. She loves pushing things around on wheels and throwing things out in the garbage. Next task is getting her more proactive at putting away her toys when she's done.
We took a short hike around the park on Sunday morning which included stops at the fishing dock and the playground.
Bella enjoyed showing her cousin Jack the fish swimming below.
I just had to include this picture to show Bella's color coordination. Starting from the top: maroon and brown ski cap, hot pink sweatshirt, red and orange pants, and of course the brown, teal, and pink
moccasins.
Just one last picture to finish this short entry; about two campsites down from ours is the great vine coming up out of the ground and snaking quite a distance to the nearest trees - it looks like some super creepy ghoul waving its extremely long arms at tha campers. Next time we have to get this camp site so that we can see this at night.......
We made our first attempt at camping with a 20 month old this past weekend at Palmetto State Park near Gonzales, Texas. We limited this first trip to one night so that we could slowly ease Bella into the routine change. Despite the pouty picture, Bella really enjoyed herself and was a lot of fun, just not too cooperative in taking this picture. She had too much fun to go to sleep right away, but then slept through the night (even with all of the coyotes howling and cold air) up until about 04:30 when she wanted to walk around the tent in her bare feet. It was tough for us for about 45 minutes, but then she crawled into our sleeping bag and fell back asleep until about 07:00.
Bella was very helpful (most of the time), and sometimes too helpful. She wanted to help with unpacking the car, at setting up the tent, and cooking breakfast. We have already learned the word "hot", so just telling Bella that the fire is hot is enough for her to know that she doesn't want to touch it. She loves pushing things around on wheels and throwing things out in the garbage. Next task is getting her more proactive at putting away her toys when she's done.
We took a short hike around the park on Sunday morning which included stops at the fishing dock and the playground.
Bella enjoyed showing her cousin Jack the fish swimming below.
I just had to include this picture to show Bella's color coordination. Starting from the top: maroon and brown ski cap, hot pink sweatshirt, red and orange pants, and of course the brown, teal, and pink moccasins.
Just one last picture to finish this short entry; about two campsites down from ours is the great vine coming up out of the ground and snaking quite a distance to the nearest trees - it looks like some super creepy ghoul waving its extremely long arms at tha campers. Next time we have to get this camp site so that we can see this at night.......
2 comments:
Love the outfit - so sweet!!
You are brave souls!
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