This was Eliza's first camping trip! Before Eliza came along, Mike and I would always sleep under the stars and backpack more often than car camp, but we figured we should start small with our little one: two nights in a tent. Eliza and I slept in my two-man tent that I got back in my cycling days. Mike slept right outside (two-man tents aren't made for men who are 6'7'', let alone one who is sharing with wife and baby). I bundled Eliza in a sleeper and hat with little socks on her hands. She slept great (much better than her momma who kept waking up to check if baby was warm enough)!
Eliza loved having her diaper changed out in the open air! There's just something about a cool breeze on a bare bum. Below is just one of many changes where Eliza is smiling much bigger than us (note the surprise oozing out the left leg)!
At first, we went to the view points and tried to take in the beauty, majesty, and colors.
Then we hiked down in among the hoodoos. I wore Eliza in the Moby Wrap. I was a little worried that she'd get too hot pressed up against my body, but it wasn't too bad. She slept for most of the time, so I kept her little head tucked inside. When it started to get hot, I wet a cloth diaper to drape over her sun hat to keep her cool.
It was great not having to bring any food supplies for Eliza. Breastfeeding definitely makes camping with a baby a breeze! I could feed her any time, any place! It was super convenient! Whenever she was hungry, we just found some nice shade and took a little break. It was perfect. I insisted that Mike take some pictures of me feeding her in such a gorgeous spot.
At night we had a delicious Dutch oven cobbler!
Eliza was great and we had lots of fun! We will have no problem taking Eliza on our next adventure! It really was about as easy as taking care of her at home, in fact she actually napped better!
9 comments:
What fun and what an adorable little camper! Thanks for the inspiration. . . I am supposed to take my boys camping at a family reunion in two weeks and needed this post for encouragement. I CAN do camping with my two month old and his brothers. It looks like fun and sounds like you had a great time (the cobbler looks EXCELLENT!). Man, the scenery is GORGEOUS. Utah sure has beautiful landscapes and such variety!
She looks so comfy in the moby wrap. I wish Owen had liked it but it was a no go for him.
Great photos–that looks like so much fun!
i am so jealous. what a great mommy you are having adventures with Mike and Eliza. I would have just stressed out too much and cried and said “no, i’m not going!”
Fun!!!
Eliza looks adorable all bundled!
You are so brave! I don’t dare take Evan camping, much less an infant. Evan always says, “why would I take time off work to pretend that I am homeless”?
I have a post request for your blog. Will you do a post regarding cloth diapers? What kind you use? Why use use them? What other kinds are out there? I am interested in cloth diapers (that is not a pregnancy annoucement), but I don’t know much about them.
Way to go on hiking and camping! You look great with your Moby Wrap! We went by and walked around the top of that area on our way home from AZ on 6/29. We probably just missed you! So gorgeous!!!
Well Paula,
I don’t believe I am qualified to write such a post, as we have only used disposable (at least for the bum… we use cloth diapers as burp cloths). I think I would like to do cloth diapers one of these days (they are a lot easier than they were in bygone decades… no pins, etc and way better for the environment, not to mention the budget), but until we have our own washer it won’t happen. If we even had a wash sink like we had in Guatemala (scrub board built in) it might be do-able, but until then my sanity prohibits it.
We have friends who just switched (Jennifer & Tyler… find link on our sidebar) and have talked about it a couple times on their blog. You can start there!
Thanks for the tip on the other blog! A great excuse to blog stalk!!
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