Birthday Revision

Sophie has now decided that she wants this and this for her birthday and has totally ditched the trip to Atlanta (even to castle!).

I held off ordering the sleeping bag until I could go by Sunrift to see their selection, but they didn't have a pink one and it had to be pink you understand.  So upon returning home I checked the site again and found the price had dropped from $59 to $39 so I promptly ordered it.  She has watched the mail like a hawk even though I told her it wouldn't be here until later in the week... it's too cute really.

I'm not sure about the tent.  Obviously that would be a whole family thing so not something just for her birthday.  REI is having one of their anniversary sales so we're thinking of going to their Pineville NC store to see what's available. 

And if you're wondering where all this camping stuff is coming from... well I wrote a whole post about it on Monday, but it disappeared into the nether reaches of the internet and I was too frustrated to retype it (since the save function obviously didn't work either).

In a nutshell:  Jim's an Eagle Scout (think Michelle's Hubby only not still as active in Scouts) and he loved camping.  I grew up camping at the beach with my family.  Sophie recently started talking about going camping and a trip to Sunrift on Monday (to get shoes for the boys) prompted her to ask for a tent.  She didn't know that Poppy already has a tent so when we got home, I asked him to set up his old Scout tent.  Sophie was delighted with it and we even camped out that night (not the boys, they decided to stay inside with M!).  She's been so good about listening to Jim while he teaches her about camping "rules" and how to take care of the tent and all that jazz.  We had a campfire meal courtesy of Jim on Wednesday that was so good Xander (my picky anti-meat eater) ate 2 hamburgers!!  So obviously the camping bug has bitten us.

She's now asking that we all go camping for her birthday party, so we'll see how that goes.  It may be another night out in the tent at rainbow castle, or we may actually take her to a real campground, regardless I'm sure she'll have a blast!  The boys... may not so much ;)