We can hardly wait for summer to be here! Everything is green and beautiful and blossoming all around us! I love the nature of Indiana. Cooper has started a new hobby: climbing trees! He loves to climb trees. He wants to try climbing trees everywhere we go. Our trees in our woods are surrounded by poison ivy, so we don't spend much time in our woods these days. Hopefully one day we can clear all the brush and poison ivy out so we can go play out there. But, anywhere else that Cooper sees a decent tree, he gives it a whirl! This was after one of his friends' birthday parties, he found this perfect climbing tree outside the house and up he went! No help at all. He's like an animal!
Even though it wasn't super warm with summertime heat yet, the boys were dying to go camping. So we set up camp in our backyard and I camped out with them all night. However, it happened to be one of the colder nights of the week, only in the 70's during the day and dropping into the 40's at night. They were determined! So we bundled up and slept together real close. Nate "took care of Kaylee" back in the house during the night. :-) The boys were so excited to use their flashlights and read books by lantern inside our tent. Originally, they came out in summertime jammies, shorts and t-shirts. I made them change for warmth and to wear socks. We all fell asleep all cuddled together around 9:30. We slept soundly and warmly till about 3:00 in the morning, when I woke up to feel Cooper shaking! He was shivering so hard! He had inched out of his sleeping bag and was laying half awake on the tent floor with part of the sleeping bag covering him! Oh my goodness! So I got him up, took him inside to go potty (which was half of the shivering problem), and got him a warm hoodie sweatshirt to warm up in. He was determined to sleep the rest of the night inside that tent despite the cold, so we went back outside and bundled up real close. Real soon, our body heat caught up with us, and he was out asleep again and warm. Jaxton slept well all night as usual! We had a great time "camping" and I hope we get a chance this summer to go on a real camping excursion with our whole family!!
On Memorial Day, the Routsong Family gets together for a family reunion. All of Nate's brothers and sisters come out to Kendallville to swim and BBQ and play together. Grandpa Routsong always gets the pool ready and the kids get to swim!! Oh what fun! They loved every minute of it, especially being with their cousins and spending time with them!
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