Farm Camp Day Four: Tee-Pees and Fire Trucks

The final day of farm camp brought visitors to the farm. Great Grandpa Dotter and Aunt Anna both came over to join in the celebrations. Aunt Anna had another run in with bad weather the night before after having riding out the F5 tornado that hit the Moore medical complex. She was in desperate need of holding a baby and playing with some adorable kids. This was Rowan's first time meeting Aunt Anna and Great Grandpa, I'm pretty sure they both fell in love very quickly. Rowan makes the fourteenth great grandchild on the Dotter   side of the family, which means there are now as many great grand children as there are grandchildren, how fun!

It was beautiful outside, though still pretty wet, so a few of our previously planned activities didn't happen, such as the creek walk and Mr. Risen's farm, both too muddy after all the rain. I'm not complaining it just is slightly mind blowing that it was super wet and borderline chilly the first week of June in OK. After naps all around it was time to build our own tee-pees. I had found this tutorial on pinterest, but was envisioning them being about four feet tall. Mom got bigger garden stakes which made wonderfully big tee-pees, perfect for reading and playing inside. There were only two tee-pees, which was plenty, but of course arguments ensued over which tee-pee was whose, see terribly exhausted children. I loved them and want one in our backyard. I could see Zach trying to engineer a bigger, better, more permanent tee-pee for us, but this kind will do just fine! Great summer fun!

Before supper we loaded the kids up and went to the Douglas fire house for a tour courtesy of Scott and Emily Moody. Emily H.and Kyser met us there for some fun as well. Yes, both of my Emily friends were there, which made the planning for this event very confusing, but I love them both! I couldn't believe how many boys there were there. There were seven boys with four more smaller boys at home from this crew. Maggie held her own, per usual, as the only girl. The boys got to climb in and on all the trucks and try on all the fireman equipment. I could tell Zane was completely beat when, after about twenty minutes, he said he wanted to go home and laid his sleepy head on my shoulder. Farm camp really takes it out of you. Many thanks to Scotty and Emily for opening up the fire house to us. We all thoroughly enjoyed it!! I should have brought Rowan so Emily could have met him, but by that point in the week my brain wasn't working at all, sorry Emily. Here is hoping Gina has a girl to start evening out those numbers!

There were lots of melt downs and crying in the evening with everyone needing sleep desperately. We had a delicious pork tenderloin and potato dinner with Grandpa and Anna before they headed home. Then the kids made smores with Uncle Brent before everyone fell into a tired pile. Bath time at farm camp has become quite the chore with five kids to bath, all in different phases of bath time, except Maggie and Zane who are quite the pair. I know Rowan and Everett will be just as close soon, though they seem hugely different in age currently.

Sunday morning mom headed to OKC to work in the shop while we played around the farm and tried to clean up the destruction we had caused during our stay. And so ended another successful year of farm camp.  Thankfully Zach, Able, and Kari all added extra hands this year, which were desperately needed. The added babies needed people to watch and hold them, people to fetch sippy cups and snacks, dry off kids from bath time, and over see outdoor time. No way could mom and I have done it alone. Next year Mr. Everett and possibly Ro will be able to take part in the fun! We can't wait!