Audrey turned seven on Friday and partied all day long. It was Field day at school so she pretty much got to play the whole time.
Soon after Audrey’s 6th birthday, she decided she wanted to have a pool party for her 7th. Then, a few weeks before her birthday she decided she wanted to go camping. We had a conflict with soccer games so that couldn’t happen. So then she changed her mind about 50 times trying to decide what to do for the occasion. Finally, I told her that I would just surprise her with what we would do. Around that same time, we found out her soccer games were cancelled, so camping was back on the table.
It was so much fun – but we decided that we definitely don’t want to go camping in Texas any deeper into the summer than May. It was pretty toasty!
The kids had lots of fun playing “pin the soccer ball on the soccer girl.”
Check out the soccer girl’s legs. They were originally supposed to go to her right, but then they would have run right off the paper, so she faked everyone and went to her left instead. Now she appears to have one extra joint in each of her legs or else to have been seriously maimed.
They also had fun breaking the soccer ball piñata.
Apparently, the park managers cut down some cedar trees before we arrived because there were fresh stumps in our campsite, and scattered cedar chips everywhere. Scott explained to the kids some of the rules of the campsite, and cautioned Kate regarding her cedar allergies. Later, we laughed when we overheard Ocean yelling to Kate that she couldn’t touch the wood because she was allergic.
On another occasion, Eden ran over to Kate and gave her a big hug. “Kate, I love you,” Eden said. “You’re my best friend.”
Thanks Ocean and Eden for your love for our girls.
By the time we were done with dinner, none of the kids wanted to eat any birthday cheesecake. So, Audrey blew out the candles and then headed into the tent.
After a little bit of work, they were all asleep. (It’s tradition on our camp outs to take pictures of the sleeping kids).
We bought a new 8-man tent for our camping trip and it made the experience so much better. Simon had plenty of room for his pack-and-play. The girls had space for their full size mattress, and even with the queen mattress for us, there was extra space for bags, shoes, and the stack of blankets and sleeping bags that we didn’t need. Simon woke up a lot during the night and it seemed like he was just disoriented. We got very little sleep as a result, but after a short containment in the van at 2:30 a.m., he was able to fall asleep for the rest of the night.
We woke up at 6:30am to the pitter-patter of rain drops on our tent. Luckily the light rain passed quickly and the heat returned.
After breakfast we took a hike through the woods. The kids were amazed at how many roly-poly bugs and caterpillars were out on the trail. Simon didn’t last long in the backpack before he fell asleep.
