Tuesday, March 01, 2005
Boy Scout Banquet
Sunday was Tyler's Boy Scout Awards Banquet. You know those crazy scouts, of course the meeting was like 4 hours!! Even I almost fell asleep. Tyler had his head on my shoulder and I am sure he was almost out! They had 3 guest speakers that were each like 80 years old and they talked about how scouting was in the olden days. I think at some time in his life, Tyler might find that fascinating, but right now it just bores him! Luckily he was excited enough about the awards at the end to last! First they had the ceremonial face painting - I guess it is a ritual that they paint their faces with colors and different lines that mean all these different things. Anyway, he got his face painted and officially became a Tiger! He was really proud. He received patches for all kinds of things, the camping we did last week and Scout Sunday and Friends of scouting. He also earned a TON of belt loops! Since he is so little, they go around his entire belt!! He was SO happy about that! He got belt loops in, basketball, computers, baseball, swimming and geez - there were many more - I will update later. The only bad thing was they left him off for some of the ones he should have earned. I was mad about that, but of course he could care less because he was so wrapped up in the ones he did get. He was so excited when we left, he wanted to leave all his stuff on and go show his friends. Even when we went out to dinner that night he wanted to leave his face paint on! He is so cute!
