So today the Beavers & Cubs went rock climbing and it was cute to watch.  None of the Beavers were able to make it past half way up the wall (I’d guess 15′) and Brandon was only able to go up 1/3 of the way before he got too scared.  That’s ok, I told him he didn’t have to go up all the way that I just wanted him to do his best and he gave it a good go.

It’s a shame he didn’t make a second attempt but that’s fine if he’s scared I don’t want to push him too hard.  Many of the Cubs did well and a few reached the top and even though Brandon only made it one third of the way up I’m very proud of him for giving it his all.

So the Wendy’s restaurant just south of Sheppard on Victoria Park has been a 14 year sponsor of the Beavers/Cubs group and last night we held our appreciation dinner there. 🙂

About half the Beavers showed up, not sure what percentage of Cubs came but it was a great time and even the Wendy’s staff was having fun.  I feel fortunate to be part of such a great group, the leaders here really do it for the love of children and other than being a dad, this is the most worth while thing I’ve ever done. 🙂

Just wish I was able to take a picture with B, but that’s alright the memories will last a lifetime.

So today the Agincourt Beaver colonies held their annual Winteree at the Woodland Trails Scout camp and boy was it a messy one.  The temperature was around 5c and with the rain yesterday, much of the snow had melted and the ground was an absolute mud pile…  Still that didn’t seem to damper the mood of the kids, I think there were maybe 50-60 of them along with parents, leaders and other support personnel and it was great.

I was with Tanya manning our part of the course so I didn’t get to go along with Brandon but he had a good time.  Dave, Chris’ dad took a bunch of pictures and will be sending them to me, when I get them I’ll post them up. 🙂

At our event, the kids had to play two games.  One was memory, go into the field look up some pictures of pirates and pirate things (this year’s theme), come back and tell us how many they remembered.  There were 10 pictures and two teams got 9 but no one was perfect.  The next game was a treasure hunt and the kids were to find 9 things hidden in the forest and they seemed to like that one.  Regardless of how well they did everyone got to open our treasure chest to get a gold coin (foil wrapped chocolate ones) and it was fun to see the faces light up when they got the first look at all the candy.

The event was 2 1/2 hours long and it went by pretty darn quickly.  Unfortunately even though it was warm, a few kids got wet feet and a few others were cold so I handed out heat packs and even lent another Beaver an extra pair of wool socks that I keep in the car (yes I’m a geek).

With that said, no one got hurt, everyone had a great time so job well done by everyone.  Brandon had such a good time he’s still singing the songs from the afternoon in the evening lol.

So last night the Beavers raced their Beaver buggies and almost immediately the kids started complaining… From “not fair” to pouting about the race results and other tantrums, I was happy that Brandon was well behaved.

LOL if looks could kill, I’d be dead a thousand times last night.

So I was invested in the Beaver colony today. 🙂

Was pretty darn tired, I’ve recovered but yeah tired and man the kids were fussy today!

So now that I’m an official Scouter, I have to attend all the gatherings and today was interesting.  One of the other leaders brought their pet snake and bearded dragon for the kids to see and boy were they curious!

To start the night off though the kids were colouring pictures of reptiles, later after playing games we decided to build a human pyramid and lol it turned out pretty well.  Running out of time, we didn’t finish it because we had one final thing to do and the kids put together paper turtles. 🙂  This is very rewarding and I’m so glad I’m doing it, can’t wait till next week!

So today the Beavers chose a name for me and I will be known as Thunder. Haha not bad at all, sounds tough and I’m so honoured that I can be a part of a great colony! The kids, well they’re young so they can be bratty but the other leaders truly do it for the children and it’s absolutely wonderful.

Haha maybe I can learn some more patience, I’m sure it’ll be tested. 😉

So tonight the Beavers went skating and man was it fun!

It wasn’t suppose to be as cold but all the kids on the ice definitely didn’t seem to notice the temperatures and had a great time.  Some of the older kids were pretty good and were skating circles around the younger ones lol. Brandon did well, the kids his age all were close to the same level and the ones that didn’t know how to skate walked on the ice and had fun. 🙂  I haven’t skated in about 20 years so I bought myself a helmet in case I fall and woo I didn’t.

To be fair I was pretty unstable but if I start skating again, it’ll come back me. 🙂  We hung around the rink for just over an hour and decided to leave early because some older kids were playing hockey on the other side and there were more and more of them showing up so it got pretty crowded.  Ahh what a great idea and since the rink is close, I think I’ll take Brandon so he can practice on his own.