Camping + Exploring = Dinosaurs.

I Love Summer. Have I ever told you that? I live for summer, I crave it, I dream about it! I get so excited the first day its says its going to be +20C. Even better if it creeps into the 30's. Our adventurous life begins every year around this time. Road trips/ Day trips, Camping, Picnics, Splash parks, The Zoo, Holidays and oh so much more. This past Canada Day we took the kids for their first camping trip of the season. We headed to Jarvis Bay (by Sylvan Lake and Red Deer) and camped for 2 nights, though I wish it could have been longer. The kids had a blast. And they slept beautifully! (I know I can hardly believe it too!) When we got there and started to set up we realized that we forgot Naveah's playpen so we had nothing for her to sleep in! We headed into town, Sylvan Lake, and browsed around to see what we could find. There wasnt much success. No where had anything that we needed. She is still to squirmy to sleep on those tiny kid sized air mattress'. I thought it was hopeless until I saw a store with a bunch of 'blow up' displays outsite. A DINGY! Perfect. So we bought Naveah her own little boat and she slept in that! Considering Kaels first bed was a laundry basket, I thought this was right on track.

The kids had so much fun camping. Naveah was having fun digging up all kinds of yummies she could find that may have been left behind by the last campers and getting her face as dirty as possible. Kael was our little explorer. It was hard for him to be confined to that little space when there was a whole campground to explore! One night the kids were getting restless just hanging out at the site so I took them for a walk while Evan stayed behind and made supper. We walked along the paths all the way down to the back of the campground and walked along the cliffs above the Lake. (dont worry it was fenced!) Naveah kept pretty quiet in her stroller. Im sure the vibrations from the stroller going over all the sticks and rocks was pretty soothing for her. Kael ran in front and behind me pointing things out and shouting at things that he saw. "sick!", "wock!", "wAder", "tweE"!!! the one that took me by suprise was "DIO-SORE!!!!". I halted and turned..."where!!!! you see a dinosaur!? where is it Kael!?" To which he proceeded to point up high into the trees saying "dio-sore". I said back to him, "we better get going quick so he doesn't see us. You keep look out for dino's and let me know if you see anymore". We continued to walk along and Kael trailed along behind me. I asked him again, "did you find anymore dinosaurs?". He stopped and looked around. Nope not yet. So we carried along. Then suddenly I hear him shouting again "dio-saur!!!" I turned and looked down. There he was squatting down poking at a tree root that was sticking out of the ground". You cant get much cuter than that!

I dont think we will get a chance to go again before we go on vacation in August and im SO looking forward to it. I love watching the kids explore and discover. Kael is at an age now where his imagination is thriving and what comes out of his mouth sometimes just kills me. And Naveah feeds off of it. I see her learning so much faster than Kael did because she has him as an example. They make me so proud.