Camping with a 18 month old?

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A.J.'s Mom

We are going camping and I was just wondering what people think I should bring with an 18 month old. I have plenty diapers and wipes, milk, and snacks. But what other things should I bring. Oh and I have plenty cloths packed also. Just looking for advice. Thanks =)


Oh and please dont tell me that he is too young and all that. We took him with us when he was 8 months and he loved it, but at that time he wasnt walking and could stay in a play pin

Answer
Camping out is a wonderful way of spending family time. It is also a healthy change of scenery for the little ones. Our family has never thought that kids were too young to go camping, we have just had to have things with us that were appropriate to their ages and activity levels.

We live in Florida where there all sorts of things to do and see so we started our grandchildren in harnesses as soon as they were walking and got umbrella strollers for when they got tired. It ended up being great later on.

It made camping so simple. They had play pens before they walked and then we moved into the harness and stroller mode. Many camping areas have surfaces and paths that can accommodate the lightweight strollers.

But, until they got really heavy, the backpack seat was also useful. The main thing was to have enough things for them to do with their short attention spans. Physical things like walking, climbing and running is good because it wears them out--in a good way. A good nap time and more physical activity gets them tired enough for bedtime.

So, take toys with you that involve activity like collapsible mini basketball hoop and ball, a tyke's mini trampoline, bean bag toss game, arm swimmies in case you go in the water or an inflatable swim seat, small size life vest so that you can go fishing, canoeing or boating--a good hat so that you don't have to worry about a little face getting sunburned, building blocks or that sort of toy so that it's different every time they play with it, and some music that is familiar, or video that is soothing. Don't forget the favorite snuggley friend and blanky, either. If you are reading to your little one, bring favorite books, or buy some new ones as part of the trip experience.

Favorite or familiar things like their own bath towel from home or pillow, or even a special wash cloth and soap are also good to bring along. Keep things interesting so that they don't have to much down time, because they are so active at 18 months. It will be a fine balance between being tired and overtired but don't put your baby in a position to be overwhelmed and all will be well.

You will have so much fun seeing him reacting to his surroundings and having new experiences--and he will be so enriched. Go, have a good time--and then do it again next year!!

Sweet sixteen help?!!?

francisco

I want to have a sweet sixteen but not too expensive, and small not big, maybe 30-50 people. I want it outdoors but I need ideas and help! Please? My birthday is at the end of may

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Here are some ideas for your party. That's a good number of people and you can pull off any number of these ideas.

Dance Party: This is by far the most popular party. Itâs the most popular for a reason, if you find the right entertainment it can be the most fun of all the different party types. Think about your school dances, many schools only have two per year of which you may only be allowed to attend one! But everywhere you look you see other people having dances on TV or in movies. Dances allow you to throw your own party just like an adult where you can have a blast with all of your closest friends. If you find a DJ who specializes in sweet sixteenâs with lights, games and contests you (or your parents) donât have to worry about anything except showing up, picking out the right music and having a blast with all of your friends! The right DJ should be able to keep the party going all night.

Rock Band, DDR or Guitar Hero Party: Why not take the games you play with your friends to the next level? Setup a screen, lighting, speakers and have a real rock championship to determine the best Rock Band, Guitar Hero, or DDR players. Setting up a tournament with brackets and themed prizes can make your sweet sixteen party a blast!

Outdoor Movie Party: Having your party outdoors can be awesome for you and your friends to take in the great summer weather and watch a movie together. You can rent all the equipment you need to have a massive outdoor screen in your backyard or by the pool so you can all watch a movie together or make a movie night out of it. Having games and party favors within the theme can help turn it into an awesome party. Big blow up screens can oftentimes cost less than $200 and can be used with standard projectors.

Pool Party: Pools are a great way for your friends to relax and hang out in the pool. Hiring a DJ to keep the music going and to incorporate the pool into the evening with contests and games can be a really great party during the summer. You can setup a giant inflatable movie screen next to the pool to show the movies on, or have a volleyball net or basketball hoop if you donât already have one for the pool.

Roller Skating/Ice Skating Party: Having an activity to focus on throughout the night is important if you donât like being the center of attention the whole night. It makes it easy for everyone to have a great time from your really outgoing guests, to friends who need a little help getting into the party. Having a really cool looking sweet sixteen cake can also help kick these parties up a notch. Having a roller or ice skating party can be a great theme option. Many rinks have a lot of creative ways to enhance your party. Having a local band or a DJ can also be a great way to kick up a party to the next level.

Lake Party: If you have a lake or campground near you, these parties can be the most memorable parties and weekends of your life.Most larger lakes have boats or pontoon boats that you can rent, or you can rent jet skis to have a blast with all your friends for your birthday party! Some lakes you can even combine pontoon boats with a dance party if the lake is big enough! You can also look into water trampolines, these can help turn your sweet sixteen party into the party of the year!

Scavenger Hunt: Having all of your friends show up ahead of time and surprising the birthday person with a party and then going out on a scavenger hunt can be an awesome party idea! It gives everyone something to do as well as adding competition into the night. Theme each stop after something that the birthday person likes or reminds you of them. You can do photo or video hunts or hunt for physical objects around town. Have the final location be a secret until you have found all the clues, then everyone can meet up at the final location to really celebrate your party with everyone together!

Best of luck!

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who invented the trampoline ?

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George Nissan

Here is the full info -

The manufactured trampoline, as we know it today, was created by two men, George Nissen and Larry Griswold, allegedly in George's garage. One day in 1935, with the help of the wrestling coach at the University of Iowa, Nissen and Griswold bolted together an iron frame. A piece of canvas, in which they had inserted grommets along each side, was then attached to the frame by using springs. This was the first trampoline. Nissen called it a Trampoline after hearing "El trampolin" (Spanish for diving board), on a performance tour in Mexico around this time, and registered the term as a trademark. In 1942, Griswold and Nissen decided to formalise their small operation of making trampolines. They created the Griswold-Nissen Trampoline & Tumbling Company in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and history was made....
Over to the UK.... In 1949, Ted Blake organised to purchase a second hand Nissen trampoline for Loxford School in Ilford, Essex, from an Aqua Show in Bournemouth. This became the favourite piece of equipment at the school, and they were invited to do a demonstration at the 1951 Festival of Britain. In 1956 Ted Blake became Managing Director of a branch of the Nissen Trampoline Company which was set up in England to cope with the British and European markets.

And so on to Europe.... In 1957 Kurt Baechler of Switzerland, who was working in California at the time, flew to Cedar Rapids, signed for Nissen, and together with Frank LaDue worked out a basic introduction to trampolining. They then took the sport to schools in Germany and Switzerland, and set up the Swiss Headquarters of the Nissen Trampoline Corp. in Kurt's home town of Gumligen, Switzerland. In 1958, after a trampoline competition in Zurich, the first international Nissen Cup was held in the town of Wasen, during the month of August.

It was Bob Bollinger of Rockford, Illinois who revolutionized judging of trampolining, introducing a system that is still being used today (with only a few modifications) separating the difficulty from the evaluation of the execution. The very first Open Trampoline Competition in the UK was at a water carnival organised by the Ilford Diving Club in 1957. The winner on this occasion was an Ilford diver by the name of Mick Forge. It could be said that Mick was the first ever British trampoline champion. The first ever televised British Championships were in 1958, and the First (UK) National Trampoline Championships was held at Stanmore Park, Middlesex, UK in 1959. The first World Championships were held in London in 1964.

Soon after the first World Championships in 1964, the inaugural meeting of prominent trampolinists was held in Frankfurt to explore the formation of an International Trampoline Federation. In 1965 in Twickenham, the Federation was formally recognised as the International Governing Body for the sport. By 1969 the first European Championship was held in Paris and Paul Luxon of London was the winner at the age of 18. The ladies winner was Ute Czech from Germany. From that time onwards, European and World Championships have taken place in alternate years - the European in the odd and the World in the even. In 1990, Ron Froehlich (USA) takes over the Presidency. In 1998, the I.O.C. accepted the F.I.T. as a federation. The F.I.T. then underwent fundamental changes. Its structures were dissolved and as of January 1, 1999, Trampoline became a F.I.G. (F�d�ration Internationale de Gymnastique) discipline. Horst Kunze (GER) retained the Chair of the Technical Committee. And then in 2000 Trampoline became "Olympic" in Sydney, Australia.

Tumbling's competitive roots go back even further than that of Trampolining. It was even an Olympic Sport in 1932 when F. Wolfe, USA, was the winner. It was in 1976 that the FIT introduced Tumbling to its disciplines.

The third FIT discipline is Double-Mini Trampolining, which has only emerged as a branch of Trampolining since the mid 1970's. Double Mini-Trampoline competition was added in 1978. The first double mini-trampoline began as two individual mini-tramps, separated by a small table covered by a mat. Later, a one-piece unit was developed by Bob Bollinger and is used today as the official equipment for that event.

References: "Trampolining A Complete Handbook" by Dennis E Horne, 1968
"The History of Trampolining" by Rob Walker, 2000
"Larry Griswold ....The Diving Fool" by Lani Lokendahle, World Acrobatics Society Newsletter, August 1997
"How Trampoline & Mini Trampoline Came to Europe" by Peter River, FIT News, April 1994

Australia
We've all heard how trampolining started in the USA, UK and Europe, but what about Australia....?
Trampolining in Australia started in the late 50s, with a few ex-gymnasts seeing trampolines and trampolining in magazines etc from the USA and UK. This resulted in a couple of trampolines being made here in Australia, one in NSW, and one in Victoria. These trampolines were about 20 feet long, made of 3 inch pipe and were fixed frame ones which were bolted together. Consequently, they had to be taken apart and re-assembled each time they were used. They had the traditional shock cord instead of springs, using just one length that was threaded round the whole trampoline. In the early days the beds were made of canvas, but in the late 50s this was changed to the now familiar woven string bed. A couple of web beds were imported from the US by Allan Ploughman who was the Nissen agent for Australia, but these were rather expensive.

The NSW Association was formed in 1960, with Fred Austine being one of the founding members. The first State Championships of any kind in Australia were held in NSW in 1961, where Fred competed at the tender age of 29. Victoria also held a competition later that year, but it was more of an interclub. Victoria held their first State Championships in 1962.

References: Phone interview with Fred Austine 9 Nov 2003

SUPER long - dont do it unless your bored?

Q. so here is ANOTHER one of those surveys-- i never really got how people picked a best answer for their surveys-- but i guess i'll make it clear on myne-

if you guess the phrase of the week- im going to put it on my profile when this survey is done- if you guess it you get the 10 points- just remember its not a serious one so dont even try that- it is silly and dumb!!

1. what is the phrase of the week?_____

2. what is your favorite color
3. what is your zodiac
4. what is your birthday and birth stone
5. Hot Dogs or brats or tofu veg. burgers
6. Vegitarian or omivore
7. do you have/ love trampolines
8. what is the coolest thing you have ever made out of play dough
9. what is the funnies saying you have ever heard
10. what is your favorite object (only one)
11. truth or dare
12. would you rather die from a polar bear or a shark
13. if you were an animal would you live in the sea or in the mountians
14. how much wood would you chuck if you could chuck would?
15. how many fingers am i holding up
16. what do you wish your name was if it had to be something else
17. how many siblings do you have
18. how tall are you
19. what is your favorite feature about yourself
20. surf, skate, or snowboard
21. where would you want to go hawaii or alaska
22. where would you want to go germany or france
23. where would you want to go austrailia or
new zeland
24. would you rather be 4 feet tall or 7 feet tall
25. are you a guy or girl
27. did you notice i skipped 26?
28. are you wondering what 26 was?
29. what is your element: fire, water, wind, earth?
30. do you resent me for having such a long servey
31. would you rather read a book or watch a movie
32. did you cry when dr. nevel in I AM LEGEND had to kill his dog- the only thing he had had for the last 3 years to keep him 1/2 way sane??
33. im so sorry if you havent seen the movie and you just read 32- will you forgive me?
34. party or stay home
35. have you ever gone streaking
36. did you like it?
40. would you do it again?
41. party at my house- you comming
42. define your style creativly- what is you!

Answer
1. what is the phrase of the week?_"and the buses wheels start moving!" idk!____

2. what is your favorite color BLUE
3. what is your zodiac GEMINI
4. what is your birthday and birth stone JUNE 11 1992, OPAL
5. Hot Dogs or brats or tofu veg. burgers BRATS
6. Vegitarian or omivore OMNIVORE
7. do you have/ love trampolines YES AND YESS!!
8. what is the coolest thing you have ever made out of play dough A TURTLE! BOOYAHH! I EVEN HAVE A PIC OF HIM ON MY PHONE!
9. what is the funnies saying you have ever heard PUT THAT IN YOUR JUICE BOX AND SUCK IT!
10. what is your favorite object (only one) (DANG) MY GLASSES CUZ THEY ROCK!
11. truth or dare TRUTH (I'M MORE HONEST THEN DAREING)
12. would you rather die from a polar bear or a shark HMM..POLAR BEAR
13. if you were an animal would you live in the sea or in the mountians SEA!! CHELLO?!?! JELLY FISH! (OK OR A ROCKING SEA TURTLE)
14. how much wood would you chuck if you could chuck would? BAZILLIONS!
15. how many fingers am i holding up 43 DUH!
16. what do you wish your name was if it had to be something else KILLER
17. how many siblings do you have 1 (LIL BRO)
18. how tall are you 5' 9"
19. what is your favorite feature about yourself SMILE
20. surf, skate, or snowboard SURF (RATHER BE IN WATER)
21. where would you want to go hawaii or alaska MM HAWAII THERE'S A BETTER CHANCE OF SEEING HOT GUYS WITH THEIR SHIRT OFF THEN!
22. where would you want to go germany or france GERMANY
23. where would you want to go austrailia or
new zeland AUSTRALIA
24. would you rather be 4 feet tall or 7 feet tall 7
25. are you a guy or girl GIRL
27. did you notice i skipped 26? HAHA SWEET!
28. are you wondering what 26 was? NAHHH
29. what is your element: fire, water, wind, earth? UHM...CRAP...I THINK WATER
30. do you resent me for having such a long servey NAHHH
31. would you rather read a book or watch a movie MOVIE
32. did you cry when dr. nevel in I AM LEGEND had to kill his dog- the only thing he had had for the last 3 years to keep him 1/2 way sane?? HE DID?!!? OMG! HAHA
33. im so sorry if you havent seen the movie and you just read 32- will you forgive me? SURE
34. party or stay home STAY HOME (I CAN PARTY ONLINE! HAHA!)
35. have you ever gone streaking NOOPE...PEOPLE WOULD HAVE TO BURN THEIR RETNAS...
36. did you like it? HEEHEE
40. would you do it again? NOPE
41. party at my house- you comming CHYEAHHHH
42. define your style creativly- what is you! I LIKE A LOT OF THINGS AND I LIKE TO BEING WEIRD AND NOT ACTING MY AGE. :)

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