A weekend of Firsts

This weekend marks a lot of first for us. Logan's first camping trip, my first blog entry, and Blake's first time dunking his head in a bucket of water. More on that later... ;)

I decided to start a blog after reading a friends blog, which she started as a way to "Keep Up" with her West Coast family. I pondered this and decided that it might not be such a bad idea since I seem to have family scattered all over the Western half the United States. It gets a little old and tiresome trying to tell tales of Blake's latest mishap or of Logan's latest first. So, I thought I could just type it all in one spot then anyone or everyone can just come here and read or not!

So, this weekend is the first camping trip of the season and Logan's first trip EVER. Let me just say that for a 6 month old baby, he did AWESOME! The first night was a little rough, he took off on a coughing trip around 4 AM and ended up throwing up on himself, which in turn made him cold and wet. After getting him settled and warmed up again. I decided to cave in and let him snuggle up with me for the rest of the night. The next night was great! No coughing and he went to bed like a pro! woke up early for a bottle then fell right back asleep and didn't wake up again until 7:30 when Blake decided he needed to do the dishes.

And! Speaking of Blake, this is his first camping trip where he is sleeping in his OWN bed with his OWN Lightening McQueen sleeping bag. Both nights he did stellar! Except for last night about midnight were Lightening bucked him out of bed. Of which I am pretty sure that I was up and out of bed halfway through the loud "Thud".

We were also able to provide the entertainment of the campground this weekend too. We bought Blake a "Pat the Hammer" bubble maker and bubbles. You dip the head of the hammer into the little dish of bubbles and then push the button making bubbles come out of Pat's "nose". To a 2 year old, this is quite the form of entertainment. We went through a whole bottle of bubbles and when they ran out Blake took to dipping (or dunking) Pat in the dogs' water buckets. In doing so, he would fling it out of the bucket sending a spray of water reminiscent to the water show at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas. This made for one excited Jesse dog, who would jump and catch the drops of water as they flung about. Seeing the fun this was for Jesse, soon made Blake forget that the bubbles ever happened. It wasn't too long after this that Blake had succeeded in draining Jesse's water bucket down to the last 1/2 inch of water. He then walked over to Rocky's bucket and DUNKED his WHOLE head into the water!

We still haven't really figured out what made Blake stick his head in the water bucket but one thing is for sure... its a great lesson in patience for Mom!