For the past week Aiden has been attending Cub Scout Day Camp in Salem, VA. The staff was awesome and helped the boys complete several rank requirements as well as the Shooting Sports patch and pins! Above are pictures of the pocket patch the Scouts received for attending camp and the den flag for Aiden's Den!
Archery was Aiden's favorite shooting sport and he was sooo excited to get his prize of a compound bow from earlier in the year while he was at camp! Here he is shooting a long bow and wishing he had his bow at camp again!
Even better than archery was SWIMMING!!!! Aiden was so proud to have passed the swimming test at camp and have the choice of swimming in the deep end. His friend TJ gave him goggles and a snorkel that he used everyday and he even learned some new swimming techniques. It was great to see that he was becoming a stronger and more confident swimmer every time he hits the water!
At the end of camp we all gathered at the picnic shelter and enjoyed skits from the different dens at camp.
Aiden's den did the invisible bench skit for the campfire program and had lots of fun with it!
**On a side note -- we learned that Aiden, the child that will pick up any bug, lizard, frog or turtle...is afraid of snakes...smh... when the children were offered a ball python to hold Aiden eagerly walked up and held his hands out... then it spooked him and he dropped it! (I am so sorry about that Woody...I totally would not have seen that one coming) Aiden was excited about the lizards and turtles Mr. Woody brought... but he will think twice about volunteering to hold a snake in the future I think!
I am very excited to see the list of requirements fulfilled at camp this year so that I can update Aiden's handbook! I have figured out a few of them, but there was so much going on at camp it was hard for Aiden to remember it all at the end of each day! The Camp Director said he would send out a list in the next week or two and that we should also be able to pick up the "Shooting Sports" patch and pins then!
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