Leading Up To and Including the Pack Campout

Wow. I haven't posted since last Tuesday. Well, let me try to catch you up here.

Wednesday was uneventful. The Kitty Cat had her swim lesson, but the Transformer had to stay out of the water because of his wound. Thursday was very busy. First, it was the Transformer's 7th birthday! Unfortunately for him, many other activities had been planned for that date, two of which were really out of our control.

We started out by taking the Transformer in to see the doctor for his annual well-child checkup. He was prepared to get vaccinations, but it turned out that he only needed a chicken pox booster. Yay! We saw a physician's assistant that morning, who checked his hand and said that it looked like it was healing great. We talked about his postnasal drip and decided on giving him Claritin every morning. Seems to be working fine so far. We came home for lunch and a brief present opening from Aunt Kay, then headed back out to check out the archaeological dig at Zilker Park. We stared in the hole for about 30 minutes. They weren't doing much in the way of excavating. The recent rains had caused a small mudslide that needed to be scooped out.

After going to Zilker, we went to KXAN for a tour with the other Tiger Cubs (for Achievement #4G). That was pretty cool. The cubs liked the chromakey (green screen) best. From the TV station, we went back home for a hurried dinner, a quick Happy Birthday song and cake eating, and then back out to go to the Pack meeting. A very busy day, indeed.

Friday, we took pretty easy. We did a little bit of school, but I felt bad that the Transformer didn't get to do much of what he wanted on the previous day, so I let him just play most of the day, along with his sister. That evening, we went out so that Kirk and I could play volleyball (had been over a month for me!).

Saturday was rushed as well. Both of the kids had soccer games with pictures beforehand. Then Kirk took off with the Transformer to go to the Pack Campout, while I took the Kitty Cat to her game.

Once we had split up for the weekend, things calmed down a bit. For us anyway. Kirk and the boy, of course, participated in all things camping. Apparently it rained a bit on them. The pictures in this entry are all from their campout. They apparently had a good time and discovered that the Transformer has a bit of marksman in him!

To the right is a picture of the Kitty Cat's friend, RW. She was the reason that I had considered going as a whole family, since the girls could hang out together. I'm not sure if any other girls had gone. To the left is RW's brother, JW. He is a Webelos II now (just graduated into that rank).