Dress rehearsal

Since we are going camping in two weeks, we decided to put up the tent today for two reasons:

#1 - Make sure we know how to put it up ourselves.  We got a new 9 person tent (we had a 2 man tent prior to this one), and figured we should probably try putting it together before we actually get to our campsite.

#2 - Let the boys play around with it and get used to it.  Two people I know have mentioned that when they took their 1 year old camping, they freaked out a bit in the tent...mainly when sleeping.  We are not going to necessarily camp in our backyard for a night to get them that used to it, but we thought if they could play around in it a little, it might familiarize them with it when we actually go.

And of course our pictures:

We took their snack in the tent and of course instead of eating it, Ellis thought it was funny to take the fork I took to pick up the fruit snack pieces and try picking it up that way.  He was actually successful at picking it up so I ran back in the house and grabbed two infant forks for them to use instead.  Who knew that they would be getting a fork-using lesson in the tent too?  =)

And everywhere they went in the tent, they had their fork in hand!

Logan too!  Not gonna let that fork go.

Trying to figure out why he can't look out the windows like he can in the house.

And then Ellis discovered the door.

And successfully climbed out.

Note to self: Make sure the door is zippered, not just velcro'd if we want to keep the boys in the tent.

And then back in (with fork still in hand!)

He loved this new game.

So Logan tried.

So far so good.  I think we'll put it up again next weekend
for another try at it (although they seemed to be okay with it so far)

Yup, we're ready for camping!