We also took Easton camping for the first time. I'm not joking or exaggerating--he LOVES being outside. Thats the first thing he wants to do when he wakes up--he makes a noise and points outside. So he really liked camping, just not the sleeping in a tent. So pretty much he's like everyone else. The hiking and swimming is great, but then take me home to sleep in my bed. It also happened to rain one night and one of the days turned out to be the coldest one of the summer. The campout, however, was where he first started liking boats and motorcycles. When he doesn't want to eat, we have to distract him somehow and then he'll eat a lot. So while we were there, he would have to sit on the big wheel half the time in order to eat. He liked it when we bounced it up and down and said, "vroom, vroom."
These were taken after our first night... it was rough. His face says it all ;)
Of course we made a visit to the Kootenai River and took Easton on the swinging bridge--he was so brave, he wanted to walk on it himself ;) We put our feet in the cold water while Blaine and his dad fished. I was trying to teach him to throw pebbles but he just drops them over his shoulder. Then he kept trying to put them in his mouth, so first he would laugh when I would tell him no, and then he would yell when I took it away from him.
Blaine's mom also taught me how to can peaches since they are so delicious. We miss being able to take home frozen elk meat, homemade huckleberry jam, and canned peaches when we would drive home to Utah. We also went to the quilt cottage and got some cute fabric for baby boy #2's blankie.
We left the boys at home and drove to Whitefish to have dinner and see Ring of Fire (a Johnny Cash musical) with Blaine's mom, grandma, and aunt.
