Avery's 1st campout as a BOY SCOUT

Avery is now in the eleven year old scout troop.  He was so excited to go on his first camp up to Maple Rise.  In his troop meetings, they planned the campout, including their camp troop name.  They wanted to call themselves the FLAMIN' TIGERS and Avery volunteered to make the flag.  When he came home and told me that he was suppose to make a flag, I asked him why he had to and he told me that he volunteered.  I thought, "great!  this means that he volunteered his mom."  I had plenty to do and really didn't want to make their troop flag.  Avery kept asking me when we could get around to making the flag and I kept putting off until I just couldn't put it off any longer. I found a piece of fabric and copied a clipart image off the computer.  Avery looked at the clip art and then hand sketched the tiger all by himself on to some orange sticker vinyl that I had.  He didn't trace it or anything.  He just looked at it as he drew it on the vinyl.  I was so impressed with how good he did.  However, we decided to change the name of their troop from the Flamin' Tigers to the FIRE TIGERS.  "Flamin' " isn't the best representation of a group of young boys for obvious reasons, so we advised against that one.  

Avery had a great time and learned a lot.  I can't believe he is already old enough to be in Boy Scouts.  He'll be a Eagle before we know it~ I hope!