enable me to share the ninth installment of our extremely Rookie summertime series.
Bec is just beyond the official meaning of being a “true rookie” mom to her son Ben. Ben is a whopping 13 months old. She is sharing the story of their rookie camping trip together on Vancouver Island at Rathtrevor Provincial Park.
For even more details about the camping trip (and the rest of Bec’s life), see www.becshulba.blogspot.com.
I have a 13 month old, Ben. My husband, son, as well as I were camping with good friends as well as their children, ages 5, 3, as well as 16 months. since camping was their idea, I figured they were pros. I wished to appear to be a pro myself therefore, packed sufficient food for 7 days instead of the meant 2 days as well as packed a suitcase full of clothes for every of us.
Unfortunately, this only made me look more disorganized when I might never discover what I was looking for. Thankfully, I soon found that our good friends had only camped with their brood when previously. Phew. The (imagined) pressure was off.
We spent most of every day at the beach, building sand piles as well as driftwood forts, discovering infant crabs, as well as inadvertently filling diapers with stated sand.
Despite my son’s enjoyment for beach activities, I brought him back to our campsite for his naps twice each day. Each nap, he lay down in his pack-and-play as well as slept promptly which was a huge surprise to me – however being outside is tiring for bit ones! during the toddlers’ afternoon naps, my good friend had her 3 as well as 5 year olds draw out their backpacks with their selected toys. She laid out a blanket in the forest next to our campsite for them to play on as well as we hung out in our folding chairs. The shade of the trees was perfect modification of speed for the warm of the afternoon.
Unfortunately, sleeping at night was not as easy. 20 – 30 minutes of crying to go sleep the very first night. Our friends’ young child wept for even longer one night when she went down. Leaving a infant to cry-it-out in a campsite is overall stress. What we found, however, is that they ultimately do go to sleep. We were camping in a camper on the back of pick-up truck. The pack-and-play was set up with a bit path to our bed.
When it came time for us to slip in to our camper, our good friends whipped out glow-sticks! As it turns out, glow sticks (you can a pack of them for a couple dollars at Michael’s or Wal-Mart) are the very best type of night-light for camping! They’re not bright however in the pitch dark, they’re all you need. even though we took our glowsticks as well as tried our finest to get into the camper bed quietly, Ben woke up. He definitely seemed scared of the shadowy shapes bring small beams of coloured light so I quickly chosen him up as well as assured him it was his mommy. I provided him a comfort bottle in really hopes to resume drowsiness however no such luck. Wailing ensued. At 11:30pm in a campground. If I had believed crying at a 7pm bedtime was stressful, it was nothing compared to this. Now, I’d checked out many a blog publish as well as heard from many a good friend that when they were camping, their youngster ended up sleeping in their bed with them. While I might never rather envision this working with my infant boy, I pulled him out of the playpen as well as popped him in between my other half as well as I. terrible idea. I don’t understand who these youngsters are who lay down as well as sleep between their parents when camping as well as they are not Ben. Ben was instantaneously full of giggles as well as energy. Back into the playpen he went. כן. We let him cry it out at 11:30pm with our good friends camping right next to us as well as the noise bring far as well as remove to many a campsite nearby. אֲנָחָה. however he fell asleep.
Both mornings that we were camping, Ben woke up between 5:30 – 6am. After poor sleeps, this was method as well early however it got me up as well as going for a half hour walk each day. as well as thankfully, this campsite has a Nature home that likewise offers organic Salt spring Island Coffee…mmm…
So, camping with a young child – was it worth it? I didn’t even tell you the “how do we clean the sand off this baby?” כַּתָבָה! Let’s just state that we made some memories as well as I’m sure we will be back however perhaps we’ll wait a year or two up until next time so we understand that he will really keep in mind it too. ?
If you’re ever in British Columbia, Canada, more particularly on Vancouver Island, I would extremely suggest Rathtrevor Provincial Park as a location to camp with children. The bathrooms are clean as well as have showers. There is not only forest to play in however lovely beaches with both rocks as well as sand. The water that comes out of the taps is drinkable. These are all must-haves in my book when camping with wee ones.
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