Summer Camp

Tai is half-way through his month of Summer Camp and really enjoying it. Honestly, I didn't expect it to be very different from preschool during the summer. I just thought it would be nice to try getting used to new routines, teachers, and kids, as practice for kindergarten.

But it turns out that, even when you are just 5-and-a-half, summer "camp" is very different from summer preschool.   And it rocks.  Every day he comes home having learned new songs, heard new stories, and made new friends.  And it is so adorable how they are doing All The Camp Things.

Tai seems shockingly grown-up when explaining to me how to play tether ball,  Capture the Flag or what a slip-n-slide is.  And just look at the tie-dye shirt he made!

And this is the gimp bracelet he made for his sister.  I had completely forgotten that gimp existed until he came home with this treasure, but then it all came flooding back.  I used to love making this type of thing.  I am half-expecting a macrame potholder this week.

Perhaps Tai's favorite thing about this "big kid" adventure is that at the end of the day he is already lined up waiting for me, lunch bag in hand.  I simply drive up and a teacher escorts him to the car and he jumps in.  The first few days I was arriving a little early and going in to the classroom to help him gather up his stuff. But eventually he asked, "Mama, don't park the car and walk over-- just drive up and I'll get in."  We only made 5 1/2 years before I embarrassed my son in front of his peers.