The other night was the Pack Meeting where the kids get to launch the rockets they've assembled & decorated on their own time. Mouth (left) did a ying-yang theme with black & white (you can sorta make out the symbol in between his fingers) and Sullen was feeling particularly lazy (either the computer or his book was calling to him -- who can ever tell??) so he just painted his all black & went with that.
Once we got there, Sullen decided he didn't want to launch his rocket -- he just wanted to chase around the other ones coming down. Whatever. I figure it gave him 30 straight minutes of running. So that it didn't totally go to waste, I let Wee One have it to launch.
The Den Leader manning the rocket pad he went to, showed / helped Wee One push down the launch button... and then it was off! Sullen was really great & went & recovered the rocket for him & carried it while it was still hot...
Once we got there, Sullen decided he didn't want to launch his rocket -- he just wanted to chase around the other ones coming down. Whatever. I figure it gave him 30 straight minutes of running. So that it didn't totally go to waste, I let Wee One have it to launch.
The Den Leader manning the rocket pad he went to, showed / helped Wee One push down the launch button... and then it was off! Sullen was really great & went & recovered the rocket for him & carried it while it was still hot...
They had a blast that night! Some of the Den Leaders also shot off their personal rockets -- bigger than the kids, OF COURSE -- because, after all, you know how boys are about their toys!! Unfortunately one of the guys lost his rocket in the pond, which was a costly "oops", since it contained a camera in it. There's $90 in the bottom of THAT retention pond!
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For some reason I tend to get Sullen and Mouth (the nicknames) mixed up often. I think it is because my Aussie is so much like Mouth, but is very sullen. So when Sullen does something that my Aussie would do, I always look at the picture of Mouth.
Just wondering what boy scout group are kids in when they are in 2nd grade? My boys REALLY want to be in boy scouts and I need to find out where I can take them.
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