Cub Scout at the Police Station

As the finale of their Hometown Heroes unit, the boys toured a local police station.   Last weekend they had a meeting at their den leader's house about service dogs with two in attendance.   John accompanied William to both events.  For the dogs, they went on and on about how hairy the long-haired German Shepherd was!  We knew how much hair Rachel shed, so I can only imagine with that fella! 

 

I borrowed all of these photos from the den leader's Facebook update.  I love how she catches the progressively nervous faces of the kids as they go from their favorite spot (viewing "The Beast" and the other big vehicles) to booking and finally in the last photo - on a cell tour.   Scare those kids straight!

 

 

 

Half Birthday

Half birthdays are totally worth celebrating!  Mostly it was a fun excuse to get together on a Sunday afternoon with my neighbors to eat Mexican food, drink margaritas and eat a "chocolate piñata!"  Fruit and churros were inside that chocolate shell!

Welcome 2017!

We hosted New Year's Eve for some friends, and it was a great incentive to get the new sink and toilet into the powder room, reorganize the living room to better store William's Legos, and generally get the construction materials and tools that had been lingering around put away! 

William still had one more week off school. . . .so we signed him up for daily swimming lessons during the lunch hour.   He got that Bears stocking cap as a sign up gift.  After briefly using it as a Christmas tree topper on his new-to-him tree (a neighbor gave it to us on 1/2 when she was clearing it out of her house), he wore it all day every day for the next week!

Our other project during break was a set of mealworms that William's class had studied.  Each kid was allowed to have four.  William's four are named Will Jr., Liam, Karl and Charlie.   A few weeks in, we discovered a fifth one buried in the oats!  He was given the name Bart.   They move from larvae (worm) stage to pupae to darkling beetles.   Our neighbors each have them at various stages, including beetle.  We're still waiting for the larvae to transform.   I was tempted to throw them out since I'm the only one feeding them (they get apple slices for water and a bedding of oatmeal), but agreed to keep them at William's request.   I'm sure there will be future posts on these. .. .