Camping

We decided to go camping!!  The camp site wasn't very far away and everything was so conveniently located.  We decided to camp out in the backyard!  Well, only Justin and Lydia technically camped.  Brooke and I slept inside.  Lydia was in charge of helping put up the tent.

 Brooke was in charge of playing.  She helped mow the lawn and then moved onto playing on the slide.

 

 Lydia got distracted after awhile and started playing on the slide too.

 

 Then she went back to helping put up the tent.  She was so excited about it.

 

 

 Brooke liked playing on the air mattress.

 Lydia carried out the sleeping bags all by herself.  They were actually pretty heavy for her so it was funny watching her carry them out.

 The girls loved playing in the tent.  They thought they were getting away with something.

 

 After the tent was set up we went and put Brooke to bed in her crib.  She's been teething and off her sleeping schedule so we thought she would do better inside instead of being in the tent too.  We put the monitor outside so we could hear if Brooke woke up and then went and roasted marshmallows back by the garden.

 

 

 Lydia kept stealing the marshmallows as we were getting them ready.

 

 

 

 Lydia ate a couple bites of the smores and decided that she just wanted the marshmallows and the chocolate separate.

 We were letting her stay up past her bedtime and we could tell she was getting tired when she started to snuggle with Justin.

 While we were setting up the tent we had told her that she go to sleep in the tent.  She kept asking if "Woowee Buzz come too?" and if "duck come too?"  I think she was afraid she wasn't going to get to use her pillow, Woody and Buzz, and her little yellow duck blanket in the tent.

 

 It was so much fun watching how excited Lydia was to get to sleep in the tent with Justin.  She had so much fun.  Justin said she just laid in the tent looking around for awhile before she fell asleep and then was all excited again in the morning when she woke up!  Justin is such a good dad for taking her camping, even if it was just in the backyard!