The Growing Caldwell Family

  Having completed Arrow of Light, Charlie and several of his Cub Scout buddies were ready to move up to Boy Scout! We said goodbye to Grancy and she was very proud of Aaron for his leadership. Bittersweet moment as Aaron ends his role of den leader for Charlie and Charlie joins Pack 220. For six years Aaron has led this group of kids and through the challenges he prepared them well to enter Boy Scouts and excel.  The handoff to his new troop leader. We celebrated with dinner at Cane's! A real treat since this one opened about 45 minutes from us. 

The next weekend Aaron went camping with Charlie and the Cub Scout pack. As Aaron says, if it's raining, he must be going camping!  As they are finishing up Cub Scouts, the boys have formed patrols and are taking on responsibility for planning and cooking their own meals. On this camp out, the meals might have been the best part! They named their patrol the "Exploding Purple Pancakes" so purple pancakes were a breakfast must! The rain led to cancelling some of the activities; a scout went home sick during the night (leaving Aaron and another leader having to drive him to meet his parents at 1 AM), and leaky tents made for a rough camp out!  Charlie came home so very tired and we figured out a couple of days later that he had strep throat. Yay!   

Aaron and Charlie were excited for their turn to go on a campout! They finally broke their streak of rainy campouts and instead had gorgeous weather! One of the highlights was having American Indians come and demonstrate tribal dances and a teepee. Riflery was a favorite activity too! Charlie's big highlight was all the time he spent in the gaga ball pit! He loved having so many kids on the campout and the chance to play his favorite game A LOT!