Camp was amazing as always! Here is just a small snapshot of our week!!
Touching the ceiling on the top bunk! He has been asking if he is big enough to sleep on the top bunk this year for weeks, and we said he was! He was so excited to get up there and touch the ceiling as soon as we got into our room.
He found his rocket cup while we were packing and insisted that it had to come to camp with us! He is having a little drink while we set up the room.
Five point harness swings are fun. You can really get going on them!
Opening snacks!!!
Off to the tot lot to play while its relatively quiet!! He loves the ride ons in there, and was super excited to find Skye's helicopter. I think he is a little big for it, but he insisted that he isn't!
Having dinner on "our bench"! Levi's favorite place to eat. The cafe is very very very loud, and it's generally to much for Levi so we end up eating a lot of meals outside, and he has nicknamed this bench "our bench!" Thankfully it has always been free at meal time. I don't know what he would do some day if someone else was sitting on it.
Opening ceremonies! Doing Hands Up!! A huge camp tradition!!
First night bomb fire and marshmallow roast. One of Levi's favorite things!
Family tradition of washing off the marshmallow in the lake, clothes and all! Levi gets soaked and has a blast, and the marshmallow does generally all come off.
Playing music at the new instruments!
Playing 4 in a row on the yard size board. Levi had a blast!! And got lots of "yellow shirt" attention!
Day 2 Morning! Breakfast we can generally eat inside because people come at all different times, so the care is more empty and quiet.
Running around the stage after breakfast. A big thing that all the little kids do! Was cool to see Levi join in this year. He wouldn't have anything to do with it last year.
Giving Sully his morning duff with Bear.
Little door time!!
Bear and Levi coming in the little door!
Pool time!!! It's really nice that Levi doesn't need a nap anymore and we can do fun things during family rest time instead of actually resting!
Dinner time on our bench again.
All dressed up and excited for the masquerade ball. So fun and exciting to see him happy!!
He said "I'm going to go ask them to play the Paw Patrol song!" and sure enough he went right over to the DJ and asked!! And one song later the DJ played it!!! Made his day!!
Running around and dancing with the other kids his age!!
Three characters all together. I seem to have lost Levi though. But Hi Sully, Mike, and Rocky!
He lasted about 40 minutes at the masquerade ball before being done! That is amazing compared to the maybe 3 minutes we forced him to go last year. He wanted to go into the game room, and there was an older kid who asked him to play air hockey. He didn't really know what he was doing, but the kid was so patient with him, and made him feel like he was doing great. It's so awesome to see all the kids helping each other out at camp!
Playing with the life size chess board. He was helping a dad put all the pieces back on that the dad's child had taken off. The dad kept saying thank you to Levi as his own son had run off on him.
Good Morning!! Life is good!
More small door play!! Levi loves the little Levi size door!
Snow cone day is Levi's favorite dessert!! This was the dessert after the yummy Texas Roadhouse BBQ lunch. Levi could have kinda cared less about the BBQ but was stoked about the snow cone. In fact he had two!
Eating his second snow cone.
While Levi was in the tot lot and Jay was on the challenge course I decided to go to the adult arts and crafts room and paint some on the shower curtain. Every family room has a painted shower curtain from some week of camp, and this was the first year we have gotten to participate in painting one! Was cool! Someday, someone will shower behind these words!
Dinner time! We convinced Levi to go to the picnic tables today! So much more comfortable then the bench, but still quiet enough for Levi to actually eat.
Playing with the chess pieces after he was done eating. Somewhat hard to see in this picture, but he put all the black pieces on black squares and all the white pieces on white squares!
Giving the moose some love!
Getting ready to do his act in the talent show. He was super excited, then really nervous and said he wouldn't do it, and then super excited again. He went out their and did amazing!! He dressed in his Rocky costume (his request) and did flips and tumbles to skidda marink a dink, his favorite song. Everyone cheered for him and his smile just got bigger and bigger!! He was super proud of himself!
We travel with no shortage of stuffies! I think he somehow managed to sneak 8 stuffies in the bag for camp!
Playing with some friends from next door out on the porch. This playdate could have gone better, but it could have gone worse too. Overall he played with them some, and shared his toys some.
And he did his own thing some too.
Kids only dinner night. Sorta a tradition to eat it on our porch!
Float dessert!! This is where the love of/addiction to orange soda came from!!!
Hanging with the bears!!
Dinner on the last night!
Wish boat ceremony!
Playing remote control for the last time on the way back to the room. Levi is the remote control and he "hits" pause and play to get people to start and stop. It's super cute and he gets really into it.
Yearly sign picture!! I thought it would be cool to see Levi grow over time. I swear he didn't shrink this year, camp raised the sign up about 6 feet. It used to sit on the ground, not up on posts!
Making his bear on the way home from camp! I am so grateful that pay your age day was yesterday and not today!!
Meet Bamboo!!
As always thank you for a great year at camp everyone! This is the best week of our year as a family. No stress, no fighting, just relaxing and being silly!! We are geared up to have another year of medical crazy, but we can handle it. Our tanks are full again and we can get thru anything!!
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