Camper of the week!

Hi all, sorry for the delay in posts, it's been a busy month. Good news is there's lots to catch up on. One of the main features of this summer has been the boys being in Kidventure camp. This is Jamie's third year and Connor's second. Jamie has always loved it in the past, and he's had a good time this year, but I think it may have run its course a bit with him. It's a very creative, artsy-crafty, activity focused place, which we like but I think Jamie is really wanting something more sports-focused. He does seem to have impressed them with his athletic ability and a couple of weeks ago got the best Sportsman award for the week, which pleased him very much. This last week he got an award for best Big Brother, which may have pleased us a bit more than him.

Connor, on the other hand, has been loving it. Now, our children often tend to be a bit reluctant about group activities. Let's face it, they come by it honestly. Sarah and I are not joiners, and we are not generally audience-participation types. But Connor's zeal for camp was such that a couple of weeks ago he got one of two camper of the week awards for the whole camp. Generally this was because he is an agreeable, kind little boy who has fun, but the icing on the cake was his performance of the Kidventure song. He had done it for us a bit at home, but we were getting reports from the counselors of much more enthusiastic renderings. Sure enough at the week end talent show and award ceremony, when it came time to sing the song, Connor marched, quite uninvited, up on to the stage with the counselors and sang so loud we could hear him over the entire group of 50 or so kids. His face was bright red and the veins in his neck were popping out! Sometimes he's still not a joiner, but when he does he really goes all in.