A day in the life of..

It was the big Boy Scout camping weekend! Saturday morning we had to check in by 9. Of course we were late being that we were at the fair until so late. It was OK, we didn't miss anything. Last time we went camping his entire den was there, this time there was only one other boy from his den. Oh well, he seem to make the best of it. He was climbing trees the whole time. That is his new thing, he loves to climb trees. I wish he wouldn't, I feel like I am going to have a heart attack watching him. At 12:30 was the flag raising and opening ceremonies. I have the cutest picture of Tyler and Will saluting the flag. He was so excited. The whole day was full of events. 1st he had fishing and he was trying so hard to be patient. I had this vision of what each of us were thinking sitting there on the dock. He was wishing it would be over and I was praying to God he would catch a fish since he sat there so patiently for so long. The only good thing that happened was there was a fish that kept stealing his corn. It came and took it 3 times! He thought that was funny. But, no fish for us. 2nd, we did practice for our skits for the night time camp fire. The kids were separate from the parents. 3rd we did Archery. I felt bad because it was hard for Tyler. It was hard for everyone. He could only pull the bow so far and then he couldn't get it to hit the target. He was really getting frustrated. He finally made one go REALLY far into the woods and he thought that was funny. 4th we did Ultimate which is like a football game with a frisbee. It was kind of fun. I always like to see how Tyler interacts with other children and adults. He is so sweet, some of those other children are hoodlums!! I mean it. They are so rude and obnoxious! Tyler is so sweet and well behaved, people always compliment him on that. 5th we did the monkey bridge, we did that last time when we went for just the day, but this time it was a little bit bigger and he liked that. Last we did wiffle ball and of course Tyler loved that. It was kids against adults and Tyler did really well. He was hitting and running. He also pitched to the adults and was striking us out!! One person hit the ball right back to him and he caught it! He did so good! We had some free time after that and then went to dinner. I have to admit, dinner was bad. Everything was so cold, it was like they just pulled it out of the fridge. All the kids around us were complaining and not eating, but Tyler scarfed his down, I think he had such a long day out in the sun he was drained. At 8 was the camp fire and all the adults did songs and the kids did skits. He thought that was pretty funny. Don't tell Tyler, but the skits were like torture!! They were so long and you were waiting for this punch line that just never came! It was pretty funny. So, after that was bed time for us. Really, it was like 10 or 11 before we got to bed. I slept in the sleeping bag with Tyler - HUGE MISTAKE!! Considering the last time I slept in the sleeping bag with him he was like 20 pounds lighter and just smaller, it was a big difference!! It was horrible!! First of all it was FREEZING! I slept with a cap on and my jacket but Tyler refused to keep his jacket on, I guess he just thought it was too weird. I kept waking up to make sure he was warm. His nose and ears were freezing. I looked on the internet and it was like 50 degrees! BRRRR. Anyway, Tyler has never been one to like sleeping close to people so while he was asleep he was fighting with all his might to get away from me. He would stiffen his arms and legs and then the zipper would bust open and he would be free! Of course I would wake up because when he broke free, all the cold air would come in. He did this like 5 times! Finally I got smart and put the zipper under him and he couldn't get out. This was only good for one thing, keeping us warm. The next day my stomach was so sore because he kicked me so much! That kid is wild! Needless to say I did not have a very good nights sleep, so I was laying there half asleep and half awake when this huge drop of ice cold water plopped right into my eye! I was so mad! In the morning, all the other campers were up and we could hear them, but we would not get out of the sleeping bags because it was so cold - we even missed breakfast! All in all we really did have a fun time. Tyler loved it and was covered with dirt by the time we left.