Rebecca – Page 57 – Andelin Adventures

Cove Fort

One of our stops on the way to California was at Cove Fort. It’s always a pretty place to stop, but we often pass it during the night when it wouldn’t make sense to stop there. So since it was daylight, and we needed a place to stop so Debby could feed Rexton, we decided we would stop here to give the other kids something exciting to see.

We decided to take the tour while we were here. That way the kids could learn about the history of the fort, and it gives the cute missionaries someone to talk to. 😉

The kids really liked trying to see out of the peep holes.

When we finished the tour, the missionary gave the kids some spinny toys that kids used to play with back in the times when the fort was in use as a kind of hotel, and it was time for us to gey back on the road!

Going to Grandpa’s House

We were supposed to leave last night to go to Grandpa’s house, but after scouts, and the chaos of packing and loading the van (while Kyle was on the phone working out details for a job back at Symantec) we decided to try to get some sleep and leave in the morning instead. We woke the kids up pretty early and Adam was very excited to wear his backpack to go bye bye.

Before we could actually leave town though, we had to stop off and pick up Debby and Rexton. Jeff couldn’t get the time off to make the trip, and Debby didn’t really want to go alone with the baby so she decided to come along with us.

A couple of hours down the road, someone asked about Chewy. I thought Kyle had brought him to the car, but I guess Kyle didn’t see him anywhere while we were getting loaded up this morning, so he thought maybe a kid to him to the car. But after questioning the kids it turns out that Chewy didn’t make it to the car at all. We were so far away already that it would have been foolish to turn around to go get him, so since we left Jeff with the key and instructions for feeding Jango and the cat, we had to let him know that Chewy got left behind and was there as well.

We made several stops on our way to Grandpa’s house to give the kids time to wiggle and stretch their legs. We even got to drive through the Virgin River Gorge during the day time! That hasn’t happened in a long time. We usually leave so late that the sun goes down before we get to that stretch of the drive, or we are driving through the night to begin with.

By the way, here is a pretty rock I took a picture of while we were passing by.

Jeremy Lost Another Tooth

After we put the kids to bed tonight, Jeremy must have been messing with his loose tooth because it ended up coming out. I got an envelope and put his tooth in it and put it under his pillow. Then I came back out to the living room to wait for the kids to go sleep so the tooth fairy could come. After what I thought was PLENTY of time for all the kids to sleep I went down the hall and found Jeremy sitting on his bed crying. I was shocked, and asked what was wrong. He said that he wanted a picture. So I brought him out to the living room, slipped the tooth out of the envelope and took a picture.

He’s such a sweet kid.

Ethan’s Arrow of Light

It’s pack meeting night, and that means awards. Jeremy received his CyberChip award and the Marbles and Photography belt loops tonight.

Ethan finally received his Arrow of Light tonight. We had it finished early enough for them to give it to him at the last pack meeting, but they weren’t prepared to give it to him. Ethan also received all of the other awards that we have been finishing up, including the Forester, and Aquanaut activity badges, the last compass point, the Collecting and Swimming belt loops, the Marbles, Swimming, Geology, Nutrition, Photography, Weather, Computers, Citizenship, Science, and Collecting pins, the CyberChip, and the Cub Scout World Conservation award. He also received a special award, the Webelos Super Achiever, for earning all twenty of the Webelos activity badges. When Ethan was done stuffing all of that into his pockets, they went on with the Arrow of Light Ceremony.

Then, since Ethan has turned eleven and will no longer be a part of cub scouts, they had a cross-over ceremony for him. Brother Howe walked him through each rank in cub scouting and he ended by crossing over the bridge to meet his new scout leader. I had given his scout leader his book and neckerchief and slide to present to Ethan when he crossed over the bridge, and that was that. Ethan is now no longer a cub scout, but a boy scout.

Here are all of Ethan’s awards that he received tonight:

Cub Scout CyberChip

With Nokia’s “Tell my story” thing going on in the house, that means that the boys will be having access to the internet on those phones and we decided that in conjunction with that they would need to earn their CyberChip awards. The requirements for each boy are different since they are both in different grades (found here), but in general they cover internet safety. What to do if you come across something that is bad. What information is safe to give and what isn’t, and other things like that.

Jeremy had to watch a video on “Netiquette” and Ethan had to watch a different video on passwords. Jeremy also had to play a game on the CyberChip website and answer some questions to earn a certificate. Ethan had to teach a lesson using one of their teachable recipe options.

Ethan chose the lesson about people on the internet. The object in this lesson was to teach that people may seem like good people, but they may really be someone bad. So to go along with this lesson Ethan had to make cookies. The lesson said to make two batches and switch the sugar for salt in one batch, but I REALLY didn’t want to waste that many cookies. So we made one batch, and after he made most of the cookies and we were down to the last bit of dough, I just had him add lots of salt to it. That did the trick. Then we had Ethan present his lesson to the other kids.

We lined all the kids up on the couch so I could get pictures of them eating their salty cookies (nobody but Ethan knew there was anything faulty with the cookies). Tyra is the ONLY one that made a face when she realized it was salty.

We didn’t make anyone finish their cookies. They were allowed to throw the salty ones away. Then we passed out the yummy cookies while Ethan finished teaching his lesson. 😉