Peek of the Week - July 29, 2011

What's Peek of the Week, you ask? It's our Friday feature and it's all about you! I want to hear (and share with my readers) what wowed you this week. It could be a cool finished project, a work in progress, a personal accomplishment, a cute kid moment, or something that surprised you.

If we could peek into your week - what would you want to show us?

Each week I'll share my own Peek of the Week to get the ball rolling, and invite you to link to your blog post about your Peek of the Week. I know y'all are up to cool stuff - we wanna see it!

Mine is a two parter this week, so bear with:

Since the shuttle launch Eli has become fascinated with all this space and space travel. And, Eric's away at church camp this week with some youth, where on Thursday nights they launch bottle rockets. So, the boys and I decided to take a day trip down to visit Dad and be there for the blasting off. But that required some prep work:

Step one in the bottle rocket making process: Root Beer Floats. (Gotta empty your bottles somehow).

That was Amos' favorite step.
Although he did get into the second step: decorate your bottle.
So exciting.

It was a beautiful day for a camp visit. We went down in the morning and swam, ate all the dining hall and played all day. Then we got a good seat for the launch.


I love the boys in their official (if backwards) camp name tags.

The boys were so proud and super excited about their successful launches. It's always a favorite night at camp, and we were glad we didn't have to miss it!

Alrighty, your turn!
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M.A.C. - Missing at Camp

This is Boogie's "Don't Blame Me, I was at Camp." face. Sorry friends for the little break. I forgot to mention in the frenzy of decals and packing that we were off for a week at Family Camp at La Foret. Ooops. We got home this afternoon and are regrouping while the boys nap. Maybe we should be napping while the boys regroup.

Here are some highlights from our wonderful week:

Boogie and Dizzle made and launched bottle rockets. It was a BLAST (p.i.)! They got to decorate and name their vessels and see them blast off while adoring adult campers cheered. They lined the rocketeers up youngest to oldest for the launching order. Boogie was 1st. Dizzle was 3rd. Which means out of a hundred some odd campers, we have two of the three youngest. How tired are we?


We spent lots of time chowing down (often in our jammies) in the dining hall.
Expect to hear more on this sweet little seat contraption soon. Amos loves it.


There was lots of sleeping. He looks pretty comfy, eh?


Tuesday night was STAR WARS NIGHT! Our cabin mates spent months devising a very involved, all camp game. There were five stations where your team competed to identify photos of characters from all six films, listen to quick recordings of lines from the films and identify the speaker, translate sentences into Yoda Speak (and do the voice), dress Princess Leia for a journey using only toilet paper, shoot the Death Star with suction cup darts and crack a code by answering Star Wars and camp related questions. It was incredible!

And the whole camp brought Star Wars getup to wear on a processional to the event. Fabulous!


Dizzle had the most fun playing with the big kids. All the camp kids were so sweet to him and took such good care of him. So good in fact that anytime I walked up, he chirped, "Go way Mama."


And there was Tie Dye!

Confession - I put the kids to bed and went to tie dye by myself.

It was just better that way.

But they got to go pick up their tie dyed clothes with me and they were pleased as punch



Looking pretty cute! We did a couple of off camp runs to target and one lunch out. It's funny how conspicuous it is to be dressed head to toe in tie dye when you're not at camp. Oh well.

We all miss camp. E-Dizzle keeps saying, "I need to go to our cavin (cabin)." And then I ask him, because the answer is just suhdarn cute, "What's our cabin's name?"

"Tennenbome (Tannenbaum)," he replies.