Andelin Adventures – Page 18 – A blog about Kyle and Rebecca's family

Ethan’s off to Scout Camp

Ethan is headed off to his first week long scout camp! He’s got an exciting schedule planned. Originally he wanted to do a couple of the shooting sports, but I noticed that the very first class for each was at the same time, so there just wasn’t any way for him to do both this year. So I had him choose one of them. He also wanted to do wilderness survival. I suggested that he pick one required merit badge. In the end I think he has a well rounded schedule. One shooting sport (archery), one required (environmental science), wilderness survival, mammal study and one crafty badge (woodcarving).

We finished gathering his supplies and getting him packed up last night, and this morning he is off!

Ethan’s Last Baby Tooth

Ethan’s very last baby tooth fell out at the bridging activity, so we put it in a baggie so we wouldn’t lose it before we got home. We waited till we got home to take pictures.

There it is! There’s his adult tooth to take this place!

Bridging

We had our troop bridging ceremony this evening. Dinah bridged to Brownies.

Tyra bridged to Cadettes:

After we bridged the girls, we had dinner and then moved inside to finish with the awards. Rain was headed our way, so we did what we could outside. The wind got crazy and the rain was starting when we went inside.

Tyra’s Tooth over a Tooth

Tyra has an EXTREMELY loose tooth, and the adult tooth is growing INSIDE of it. It’s actually rather interesting.

Blast from the Past Girl Scout Day Camp

Tyra, Dinah, Chloe spent the last three days at day camp. I helped out yesterday and today. This year’s theme was “blast from the past”. Wednesday they got to make some bracelets from ancient Egypt, and necklaces from ancient Rome, and they came home with some constellation charts. I really don’t know too much about those activities because I wasn’t there. Yesterday we had activities from the medieval period. They got to participate in a Shakespearean play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream:

I got to help girls with a catapulting game, while my companion supervised the jousting.

Today the girls got to do activities relating to the 1920’s forward. I was at a “20’s games” station so the girls got to play hopscotch and jump rope.

Partway through the day, I was asked to help at the photo-op station. I guess the person taking the pictures for the first part of the day ran out of space on their SD card, and they saw that I had a camera and asked me if I could take over. That was fine with me and it ended up being a good thing because it meant that I got to take the pictures for Tyra’s and Chloe’s groups which also included some of the other girls from my troop. 🙂

Dinah’s group must have had their pictures taken before I was asked to take the pictures. We finished each day with a friendship circle:

The girls had learned the Charleston and practiced it as one of their stations today and after today’s friendship circle the girls got to do it all together.