We Survived Camping!

Well, we're back from our first camping trip of the season and I can happily report that all the children and all the adults survived! It was not what one would call a relaxing getaway, but it was lots of fun, and we spent some quality time with our friends Matt, Melissa and BLL (Bud Light Lime) so what more can you ask?!

We tackled the problem of mobile twins by erecting a small tent with a mostly mesh roof as soon as we arrived at our site, tossing a rubbermaid full of baby toys into it and then planting the babies in there. It sort of worked. Heidi doesn't like it when Harrison touches her so there was a decent amount of fussing, but that is still better than chasing her from trying to crawl under the truck (which is what happened in the 2 and half minutes between when we took down the tent and left at the end of the weekend). She is very, very mobile. Next time we may have to set up two tents.

We got to go to the beach (also tricky, thank goodness Brendan had Peyton (age 4) to play with and build roads since we were all hands on deck trying to keep two babies from eating sand, rocks and everything else they could find in the shallows), go on two hikes (one pushing the twins in the bike trailer, stroller style and one with each of us carrying one in a front carrier) and go to the nature centre where I had to try to explain the concept of taxidermy to Peyton and Brendan. All in all a great weekend. It took 5 full days of packing to prepare, but I'd do it again!

Saturday, Harrison continued his epic week of milestones.

After 10 and a half long months... ladies and gentlemen... we have a tooth!!!

One might think that after this long (they've been clearly teething since 4 months old) that the twins would wake up one morning with a full mouth of teeth, but no, Saturday morning, while I was literally in the middle of telling Melissa that they still had no teeth, I looked, and lo and behold there was the tiny jagged top of a bottom tooth. Talk about making Mom look like an idiot (although, if that's all it takes, I will go on record that they don't sleep through the night and hope they do their best to prove me wrong tonight(: ).