BunBun: Not So Scrungy Anymore

This is the new BunBun and the old BunBun side-by-side- Evie's love.

Yeah, it's pretty disgusting.

As Doug observed, the old BunBun's ties are like leather. It has been run over a couple times by carts, strollers, perhaps a car, etc. Been through the washer with bleach more times than you can count (the music obviously does not work anymore). The felt has been "loved" off his nose and Evie had been lamenting the loss of one of his eyes for a few weeks.

Doug's coworker had seen the old thing on our Blog and told him that she had one just like it that she would bring to us. I wasn't so sure about introducing a new one partly because I would really just like to wean the stupid thing from her (the 1st step in getting her to stop sucking her thumb) and partly because I was afraid she would "know" and then we'd have to carry around two BunBuns along with the monstrous kitty/flying squirrel we so nearsightedly mentioned to my parents that she adored at the toy shop near Christmas time.

However, when we got back from camping and poor Mr. BunBun was in worse shape than ever, with stains I doubted even trusty bleach could erase and church looming in a few minutes, I made the switch. Admittedly, she did look it over pretty well and with motherly intuition I decided not to lie to her. "Look, new BunBun! Isn't he pretty?" I think she was torn; she half held out her hand to grasp at something unseen with a slight whimper and then she looked back at new BunBun, gave a little giggle, clutching the impostor to her chest and exclaimed, "New BunBun...!"

Exhale.

We did forget a little about the implications a working music box would impose and the congregation was treated to "Rock-a-bye Baby" during sacrament, compliments of Mr. BunBun and a delighted Evie.

And More Camping

This weekend was our Annual Vessey-Pectol Campout. We are suckers for punishment, obviously, going two weekends in a row with my very pregnant self. This weekend was between 95°F and 100°F the whole time and so windy at night that I had to wear ear plugs to get some sleep (I think Doug was awake most of the night).
Hanging with the family was fun, but we escaped the bald hillside camping site on Saturday to Vernonia's Hawkins Park where they dam up the creek in the summer for older kids and there is a wading pool for little kids- all in the shade!! It was still hot but a nice relief. We left after a couple hours and Evie promptly fell asleep in the car at which point we had the dilemma of: Do we drive around for an hour or so and let the kids sleep in the air conditioned car? or Do we haphazardly throw all the rest of our camping gear in the back of the van and the heck out of Dodge?!
We opted for choice #2. You've never seen anyone tear down camp so fast! We were back on the road in 10 minutes. A few minutes after that, we were throwing things out of our car into the garage, putting dirty kids into their beds, cranking the window AC's, taking a shower, and plopping into bed ourselves- at 5pm! We slept until 6:30pm, got the kids up, dressed, ate and loaded up in the car again to head back to the campground for family campfire time. There we stayed in the cool of the evening breeze until 11:30pm when we drove the tired kids home again. I told Doug to remind me next time (when the memory of this has faded, as indeed it will considering that I went again after last weekend) that camping trips after 5 or 6 months of pregnancy are OUT!
It was so hot in fact, that we took very few pictures (only at night) because it seemed like too much work to get the camera.

Camping

We went camping this weekend with our friends the Tonks. We only stayed one night; it was super-humid with no shade and we mostly let the kids play while we tried to get our defective coals (that's what we're saying anyway) to cook our Dutch Oven food.

We really enjoyed the company though!