Maycember

I saw a funny video about how May is the new December.....hence, Maycember.  That really sums it up, doesn't it?   Cub Scouts, baseball, school isn't over yet but we want it to be.  And so much rain.  That's what May has been.

William had Cub Scout Rank-up on a Friday night: graduating from Webelos 1 to Webelos 2 (Arrow of Light), which will be his last Cubs Scout rank.  In February of the 5th grade they advance to Boy Scouts.

That same weekend he had baseball team photos in the morning, then we went by the high school to see the fine arts fair where he had art on display.  Then we raced home to get ready for a baseball game (well, he was already wearing most of the uniform from pictures, but he needed lunch!).  We got to the baseball game just in time for a giant storm to roll through and cancel the game.   It was rescheduled for the next day and we got it in around the rain.  There has been so much rain this month!

At the rescheduled game (or another one after that?), he took a pitch to the knee which hurt and still looks gross, but he did get a teammate advanced home!  His last at bat was down the first base line and almost hit the giant goose that has been hanging around the field during their games.   Of course two teams of 9/10 year olds got a big kick out of that!

I picked him up one day after school (usually John does that), so I went ahead and snapped the "last day" of school photo.  I'll have to pull up all of the K through 4th first day/last day photos to do a comparison on his actual last day at Brookdale (Wednesday, June 5), not to be confused with the last day of school (Thursday, June 6) which he is missing due to our trip to NYC.

 A pretty, rain free day meant a trip to the Arboretum to see the Lego Nature display that just opened.

At home, we had time to make William's 10th birthday cake a few days early, so we made it....and then ate it!  It was gone before his birthday but then we had cupcakes for his party, so we've survived!  This was our first use of gel food coloring, and wow, is it vibrant!  I was really pleased with how the cake turned out, and we had fun making it.

The night before William's birthday he had a Cub Scout meeting at Cantigny to learn about battlefield first aid, so we invited the boys over to the house afterwards for pizza and cupcakes.  It was a fun way to have a party without having a party.