Day 4 (8-2-11)

Pebble Beach

Showing Eli the crawdad

It was sprinkling out when we woke up this morning and continued until after breakfast. Eli wanted to go for a walk so he and I did that. Grandma got out some notebooks and markers for the kids. Each of them had a notebook with their name on it. I took Jacob and Adam for a walk over to the dock. Then Jacob wanted to look for Copper where he’d found some last year. It didn't take him long to find a piece. We took a walk over to Pebble beach so the boys could swim. They had a great time playing on their boat (large driftwood). Eli was acting fussy so I took him back to our campsite. After lunch I tucked him in for his nap and he slept for a couple hours. Grandma and Andrew came over. Jacob, Adam, and Andrew played in the rain. We took a walk (boys rode bikes) around camp. The boys had a great time riding their bikes back and forth through a large puddle. We also stopped at the camp playground to swing. Andrew laughed when he went down the slide and got a wet butt. Uncle Jared was busy giving the three boys underdogs. Eli sat on my lap and enjoyed swinging too. Back at camp Jared got a fire started for our dinner. Then we played Uno and Go Fish with the boys. Andrew had to leave for dinner. Grandma and Grandpa came over to visit. Then Jacob and Adam went over to their place while we were getting dinner ready. Eli followed them over and he and Grandpa took a walk. After dinner each evening the boys would dry and put away dishes, which they really enjoyed doing. We took a walk (boys on bikes) and saw Grandma and Grandpa getting into their truck. Jacob told Grandpa we were having smores and Grandpa said he was going to get ice cream. Jacob replied, “You have to pay money for that.” I gave Eli a smore but he didn’t want it after the marshmellow got on his hand. Grandma and Grandpa came over to sit by the fire and visit. Eli was acting so goofy after his medicine.

Day 3 (8-1-11)

Jacob's Falls

Brockway Mt.

Tired group just before our trip to the ER

We were up around 7:30am. Eli still cried when we picked him up under his arms. We also noticed he wasn’t using his right arm as much. When we took off his shirt we thought it looked swollen by his collar bone. We gave him some ibuprofen. Around 10:00 we headed to the Great Sand Bay. Eli would cry if I got too far from him. He put handfuls of sand on my knees and laughed when I’d brush it off. The boys found a frog to play with and made it a home in the sand. Adam liked going out in the deep water with Daddy. Norman went for his first swim and really enjoyed being in the water. There were some gulls flying around and he went crazy chasing their shadows.  A bald eagle flew right over us and I got it on video. From there we headed just up the road a little ways to the Jampot for goodies. We ate our goodies by Jacob’s Falls. We drove up Brockway Mt and got out to walk around up there. Back at camp I tucked Eli in for a nap. We went to Grandma’s site to visit with her. We decided we needed to take Eli to the hospital so headed there around 4:30. The hospital staff was all so kind. We really liked them and so did the boys. Eli was acting shy during the doctors exam and we were almost discharged. The doctor palpated Eli’s collar bone again and he flinched. He then noticed that where he’d palpated stayed red and said that is a sign of trauma. Eli didn’t want to take his eyes off the lady taking his x-ray. I had to bribe him to look at me with his pacifier. He did have a buckle fracture of his right clavicle. Jared got talking with the doctor and found out his one son is the guy who caught the huge fish at the Hilltop restaurant and the other son works where Jared does. They put Eli in a Y-brace which has to be checked and tightened often. He has to wear this for 2-3 wks. We need a follow up appointment with our pediatrician in 2 wks. The doctor said it a buckle fracture but one more hard fall and it could break completely. Then he said, “Good luck with that.” The nurses gave the boys a bunch of stickers. We got back to camp around 6:30. Eli acted goofy after taking his ibuprofen. We ate a late dinner. Grandma and Grandpa came over to sit by the fire with us and we made smores. Grandpa wrote, “Adam is a bad egg” on a piece of birch bark. So Jacob got another piece of bark and wrote, “Grandpa is a bad egg” on it.

Day 2 (7-31-11)

Grandma and Grandpa stayed at a motel last night so this was the only morning the boys didn’t get Grandma’s pancakes for breakfast. We took a walk around the campground (Jacob and Andrew rode bikes). Adam helped push Eli in the stroller. Grandma and Grandpa came with us to walk the trail by Pebble Beach. Eric and his family were there and joined us. We looked for blueberries but didn’t find many. The kids had a great time playing at the playground. Then we walked over to the Fort and the kids played on the platform around the flagpole. Uncle Jared chased them, pretending to be a bear. Then the older boys went off to play on the cart. Eli was on the back side of the flagpole when he fell off the platform. He cried but seemed ok after I comforted him. We walked by the Fort and Jared caught a fly which he put in a spiders web. It was really interesting to watch the spider and reminded me of Charlotte’s Web. After lunch I tucked Eli in for a nap. Jared helped his parents get their tent set up. We sat by the road and watched the boys ride their scooters back and forth from our sit to Dennis’s site. Andrew came over with his scooter to ride too. Eli woke up around 3pm. We were concerned about him as he cried every time we pick him up. I thought maybe he’d hurt his shoulder or back when he fell and we gave him some ibprofen. We headed into town to see Dennis and Leslie and check out their pottery. Then we walked across the street because the boys wanted to sit on the orr boat and big chair at the Pines. It was time for dinner when we got back to camp. After eating walked over to Pebble beach. The breeze coming off the lake felt so nice. We went to the Berry Patch for ice cream cones. Got to bed around 10pm.

Day 1 (7-30-11)

Jared woke the boys and said Adam got up really quickly. We were heading North around 2:30am for our annual trip to Copper Harbor.  Jacob and Adam were really excited too and often asked “How much longer til we get to the Mackinaw Bridge?”  The different colored lights on the bridge looked so pretty. After eating pop tarts the boys fell asleep and slept for the next couple hours.  We stopped at a gas station in Munsing for a potty break and a stretch. There we saw my Uncle Dave and chated with him for a few minutes. We got to Lance around 10:00 and stopped at the Hilltop restaurant. We got a couple huge cinnamon rolls and some chocolate milk. Eli didn’t want to eat any of the roll but liked his milk. The boys were impressed with the huge mounted fish displayed in the restaurant. Our next stop was at the stone boat in Kearsarge. The boys really enjoyed playing there and could have stayed there for much longer. But we were ready to get to camp and get set up. We went thru the “tunnels” around noon. The boys loved all the hills. Eli fell asleep and continued sleeping as we set up camp. Grandma and Grandpa arrived and came by for a visit. Eric and his family also had arrived and were setting up at their campsite. Grandma and the boys walked down to their site and came back with Andrew and Noah. They played around the firepit with the toys. Adam was so tired and just sat around trying to stay awake. We took a walk (boys rode bikes) around the campground. For a quick dinner we just made sandwiches. Then we took a walk over to “Pebble beach” where the boys had fun throwing rocks in the water. Back at camp we got the boys in their pj’s and took another walk. We were all in bed around 8:30.