Here at mauraweb! we’re deep into Gus’s very first foray into summer camp. Transitions are not always the easiest around here so we were bracing for a rough start in early July. But it was surprisingly simple! We stacked the deck a bit — there were lots of other kids there he already knew. And he loooooved the teenage counselors — they totally cracked him up. It’s just a straight up summer camp experience: silly songs, arts + crafts, sports, and running around the park.<\/p>\n
At the end of each week they all got “achievement certificates” (har):<\/p>\n
Week 1: Most friendly camper and helpful
\n(Typical not-at-home behavior.)<\/p>\n
Week 2: Best “story-teller” award
\n(I’ll say!)<\/p>\n
Week 3: Most excited sports player
\n(Surprising! Though he was REALLY into karate [read: running around hitting pads held by counselors] when I went to Family Day.)<\/p>\n
Week 4: Best behaved line walker
\n(Again, never happens when I am with him, so I’m glad it happens somewhere!)<\/p>\n
And some stats:<\/p>\n
# of days of camp thus far: 20
\n# of days Gus has missed: 0
\n# of kids at camp from his old preschool: 8
\n# of kids from his new elementary school: 2
\n# of camp t-shirts we got on the first day: 5
\n# we have now: 4
\n# of days it took for the bottle of sunscreen to explode in his backpack: 3
\n# of days it took him to lose the stick sunscreen we got to replace the exploded bottle: 17
\n# of days he had cookies + juice for snack (which his mean mommy would never feed him on a daily basis!): 20
\n# of days he was so exhausted he was asleep before 8pm: 20<\/p>\n
Yay for camp!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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