HE'S ARMY CRAWLING! This isn't necessarily NEW news, but if I don't put it in the blog, it won't be there. When we got home from Mt Rainier on August 8th (more on that later), Kyler decided that his old mode of self transportation was soooo last month, and he decided to show off his new skills. Since then, he has started to incorporate his toes. and most recently his knees have decided they need in on the gig. It is pretty cute watching your son crinkle his nose (not sure where THAT came from--blaming Jeff I think), as he scoots over to slap at your toes. Still new at this blogger thing, so I will say that I will TRY to post a video of this Kyler kuteness!
Camping. Well, we survived, and I am glad to say that it is something that Jeff and I think we could handle again with K-Man. Jeff's cousin, David, had invited us to go camping with him, his new bride, her cousin, and high school friends of David's. The plan was to camp at White River campground in Mt Rainier and to do day hikes. We had a great time, and were grateful for the invite. Hoping to do more camping/travelling with the newest Severson couple! That being said, I'm not sure about everybody else, but for us whenever and wherever we go camping the rain clouds follow. This weekend of camping was no exception. Our saving grace was that the campground was full of ginormous trees that offered a buffer from the rain. The trees and David's 12x12 canopy made the rain managable. The main point of all of this is that Kyler did GREAT! He was (and is) such a happy camper (hee hee), and he enjoyed hanging out in the Taj Mahal, which is our tent.
We packed sooooo many blankets to use as makeshift bedding, that he probably had more comfortable accomodations than we did on our air mattress. Our biggest concern, however, was that he would wake other campers up at his 3 am "I missed you Mommy and Daddy" wake up call. Thankfully Jeff and I were prepared with bottle and diaper to shut the kid up!--just kidding. Another thing to be thankful for is he doesn't seem to mind cold formula now. When we were using frozen chi chi juice (pumped breastmilk), he would take that cold with ice crystals still in it, but don't you DARE give the boy cold formula. As I had to stop nursing for medical reasons (dumb arthritis, grrrrrrr), he seems content to be fed cold "milk" (formula) now. Wow, I guess I'm rambling, so I'll cut this "episode" for now. Main point was that we are looking forward to taking Kyler camping with us again really soon. Maybe next locale will have some grass for him to hone up on his crawling skills. My guess is that he will be in full crawl by his 9 month birthaversary. That being said, babyproofing is in full effect at the Severson household!
More of the campground...
White River family photos...
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