February Fun

Luke completed the Cub Scout requirements.

 Dearest Joshua and Luke,

Luke has been really busy this month working on his Cub Scout requirements.  At the end of the month, he crosses over from Cub Scouts to Boy Scouts. A huge thank you to Mr. Byers and Mr. Harris for helping Luke complete this requirements, and for all of the encouragement along the way.  One of the last things we worked on was helping Luke start a fire with flint and steel. Luke and I were both surprised when it happened, but it did. Despite the rain and wind, Luke did it!

Mr. Harris & Mr. Byers helped Luke
a lot with his achievements.

The crossover ceremony is always a special time for the Scouts.  Just crossing over from one Scout rank to the next is special, but the crossover from Cub Scouts to Boy Scouts is extraordinary.  We started the day with mass at Holy Childhood with the other scouts. Then, onto a breakfast at the school. After breakfast, the fun began.  Achievements, face painting, recognition……

An Indian visited the ceremony, and personally invited each Cub Scout that was ready to cross over to Scouts.  It was great to see the older Boy Scouts receive the newest scouts into the troop. I am not sure what Boy Scouts will bring for Luke, but I hope he continues to do it, and move up through the ranks.

silly Josh

Joshua has been working hard with his good friend, Lucas, to get the battery buggy ready for competition.  They were working on the practice log the night before the regional contest at Lindenwood, but they finally got it done.  It was a long, laborious, and sometimes stressful process to prepare the battery buggy for competition. Joshua and Lucas placed first with the battery buggy at the Regional competition, and the entire team qualified for the State competition in April. The judges gave Lucas and Joshua an idea to improve their buggy for State.  There is not much they have to do, but it will be a fun experience again.

The battery buggy was built to race to an end point.

Luke & The Mortal Krusaders

Luke crocheting

Luke has taken up crocheting at school.  Mrs. Warner, his fifth grade teacher, taught him and others in the class to crochet.  Luke has loved it. We bought him some of his own yarn and needle to use at home to make things.  Luke has spent a lot of time outside of class working on crocheting.

I  love you both more today than I did yesterday.

Love,
Mom