Saturday morning Casey, Avery, our nehpew Dylon, and I set out towards Okefenokee Swamp in search of some caches. We recently learned about geocaching since buying a hand held GPS. (you can read details about it here: www.geocaching.com) It's kind of like treasure hunting. We had six caches on the list, all of our camping gear, and plenty of batteries.
Avery slept through the first find, which was ok since it was right off of the road and took just a minute to find. Dylon kept a boy scout badge from it and we left some baby temporary tattoos (purchased here: http://www.perpetualkid.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=2202)
We found 5 out of the six caches. Dylon took some kind of prize from all of them execpt one and we left some tattoos at each one. Avery came along on most adventures of the trip strapped to her daddy's chest in a little carrier. We went to four caches on Saturday, set up camp at Laura S. Walker State Park, then went to the last two caches on Sunday at the Okefenokee Swamp.
Avery liked being at camp. We didn't have room to pack her pack 'n play so she tumbled around on the ground and in the tent. I wasn't sure how much she would move arond in the tent and I didn't want her to roll off of her little palette we made her, so we brought the car seat in the tent and she slept pretty good for a long time. The campsite was a lot more luxurious than we expected, with a spickot and electrical outlets in between each campsite, so we were able to wash our bowls and utensils and Avery's bottles. We used the outlets a couple of times to heat up water for Avery on a small burner we have, but if we had a fire going we warmed her water in a pot over the fire.
On Sunday at Okefenokee Avery got to ride a train and pet a baby alligator and a lot of snakes at the nature show. She got to see deer, goats, chickens, an otter, and two black bears. In the middle of the nature show she blurted out DA DA. I'm not sure if we're counting that as her real first words or not. The day before we were on a hiking trail at the state park and Avery talked the whole time, most of the words sounded like aaayy bllmem eh ya or something, but there were times when it was definitely ma ma ma ma. Casey might claim this one, but it's still up in the air. The ma ma's were during a babble, and the da da was an isolated proclaimation. However, the da da was directed at the man giving the nature show holding an alligator. I can see how she'd get the two confused, but she definitely wasn't calling Casey. More developments in this case are sure to arise this week.
In other news, she is pulling up on everything and taking steps while holding on- sometimes with one hand. Little show-off.
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