Camps and a Week in Review

C attended a week long day camp at the Audubon Society.  The theme was Wilderness Skills.

The stairway at the camp is painted to look like the layers of the rainforest.

This is the description from the brochure:  Campers discover how local Native Americans and early colonists lived off the land through hands-on explorations, games, and crafts. Skills may include plant and animal identifications, shelter building, making rope, tools and toys.

They spent most of their time outside, but this is the room where the crafts and other indoor activities took place.

C had a great time hiking, exploring a pond and a bog, learning compass orienteering, learning about and getting to see a real owl,  making crafts, making a candle out of crayon wax, making a leaf print tee shirt, building a shelter in the woods and more.

C really enjoyed the camp.  He had a great time on the hikes and loved building the shelter.  C told me that he wants a compass for his birthday!  I am happy that he enjoyed it so much.  I was a little nervous because this camp was for children between the ages of eight and eleven, and C will not be eight for a few weeks yet (and eleven is so much older than almost eight!), but he fit in just fine.  


T was busy this week too.  He had tennis camp four days, worked out with a trainer at the gym, and worked out with the football team at the high school.  He also went to the movies with friends and is at Dave and Buster's with friends (thanks to Dad who is nice enough to hang out at the mall on a Friday night so the boys can go to the arcade) right now as I type.


R insisted on being busy.  Her friend Karlie came over on Monday, another friend, Allie, came over on Wednesday, and she went to her friend Courtney's house to swim on Thursday.  She also had a tennis lesson this morning and spent some time during the week with Grandma.  


K was a bit under the weather most of the week.  She is much better now.  I took her in to see the pediatrician this afternoon because even though her fever has been gone for two days, she was still very fussy and wasn't eating much.  The doctor we saw thinks she may have had Roseola.  We never noticed a rash, but the doctor said that sometimes the rash comes and goes quickly and is not noticed.  Of course, once we got home from the pediatrician's office, K seemed to be back to herself and ate pasta, half of a plum, and half of a kiwi.  Why does that always happen to me?  I think my kids hear the doctor say they are fine and then they decide it's okay to be fine (even at ten months of age).  


I am happy the weekend is here.  I spent so much time driving this week, that it will be nice to be home.  I am VERY thankful that I had help from my mother-in-law this week!  I would have lived in the car if not for her help!