Our 2nd Camping trip and more..............

Ella's new smile

This is in the wrong order but you can see from the two pictures below, Nathan likes to crawl through his exersaucer!

Ella likes eating outside

Nathan even wipes his own mouth when he eats!

Nathan and mom

Ella likes her high chair

This is how we would contain them when they were getting to much into the dirt

Playing before we left for camping

Ella is excited to go camping

Well, we tried another camping experience this past weekend. Tim and I went by ourselves this past Friday night and stayed for two nights. It went as well as can be expected for camping with 7 month old twins. We realized how hard it is to contain them now that they can army crawl. They no longer wanted to stay on the blanket, but would venture to the edges and play in the dirt. They were pretty fascinated by it. We let them play with eagle eyes until we would notice them getting close to putting something or their hands in their mouths. The nights there went okay. I ended up feeding them at night if they woke in order to not wake the rest of the campers up and now last night ( at home) we suffered for it. We knew we did not want them to get back into the habit of getting up to feed so we let them cry it out. They were doing so good at night before and last night Tim and I endured crying from 2-4am. Ella started and then Nathan finished. Hopefully tonight will be better. We tried out our jogger stroller behind the bike and that worked out great. They like going fast and we did a couple different bike rides. All in all, we now know that life will never be the same as it was before the babies came. Relaxing and reading a book during camping now comes during their naps, but it was so fun to see them get excited by dogs walking by the campsite or seeing the fire at night, that we now prefer this kind of camping.

Ella also likes to crawl all over Nathan

Ella has a new smile

Here is Ella on her camping trip. For the last couple days, she has been doing a new smile where she lifts her nose up and squints her eyes and then sniffs. It is pretty cute. It is hard to catch on camera, but the first part of the video gives a little glimpse.