Camping Trip

This weekend, Ryan and I took my family to the lake for a long weekend. Kyle was very excited about going camping in the new camper. He didn't remember our lake trip last year, nor the year before, but he was stoked about this year! All week he talked about camping. He came over a few days before the trip and "drove" the boat in the garage while he helped Uncle Ry-Ry get things packed up.

When we finally got to the lake, he had such a great time. Many things were new and unfamiliar to him, but he adapted very well. The first day, we put the boat in and he got to drive it in the water. He hated the life jacket of, course - "It's too tight" - but liked riding slow in the boat. Once we got going a little faster across the choppy water, he said, "I want to go camping!" We said, "You are camping." He thought going camping meant sitting at the campsite... and he wanted to go back! He said the same thing when we first went swimming in the lake, "No. I want to go camping!" But as soon as we got to playing (and he forgot about the life jacket) he had a ball. I think the highlight of his trip was that he didn't have to sit in his carseat when we drove half a block up to the restroom a few times. "I sit in the big seat in your car, Aunt Nerned!" That's all he cared about. Multiple times he told me, "I don't like my carseat."

We all had a nice, relaxing weekend. Lots of rest and Mexican Train Dominoes. Good food and s'mores. Hanging out with the family... good times!

We took a couple of videos while we were camping. The first is too cute not to share - Kyle singing Happy Birthday to himself. He sings pretty well!

The second video is Kyle and I dancing in the camper. He likes to play Freeze Dance and spin in circles. Then his new word for the weekend was shimmy, so we tried to shimmy in our dance, too.