It's A Wolf Thing

So... if you didn't read Twilight, that may not be funny. But I personally find it humorous to make the connection between my gargantuan boys and the wolves in that series.
And now that I have completely embarrassed myself:

This is waaaaaay old news, but Isaac received his Wolf Award in Scouts!

He actually completed all of these requirements back in the beginning of February, but they weren't able to give him the award until March. And I wasn't able to blog about it until, drumroll, please!.... May!


It is at this point of the post that I make a confession, something a little worse than the fact that I am a perpetually tardy blogger:
Shhhh... Don't tell anyone, but I'm scared of Scouts!

I'm not afraid of the actual boyscouts themselves, I'm just afraid of the requirements, the process, the uniforms, sewing on the patches, etc...

Honestly, I had NO idea what we were signing up for last February when Isaac turned 8.

So, all year long I just put off even cracking the book open to look at it. We got his bobcat requirements done and then I just sort of... tabled it. I was just sure we would open it up and the first page would read, "Sew a tent by hand and then sleep in it outside in the mountains." Or something like that. And we all know that when you give a task like that to an 8 year old boy, the person who really ends up doing the work is his mom. And if we are being brutally honest, I don't even sew the buttons back on our shirts. Matt does that.
And I certainly don't.... CAMP.
So, I just kept putting it off, hoping that he would eventually complete the activities during Den Meetings (or whatever you call that weekly meeting I take him to!) But in early January, I got an email from one of the Den Mothers (or whatever you call them!) saying that it was crunch time and we really needed to buckle down if he was to complete his wolf by the time he turned 9 next month.
Sigh.
Oh, fine.

So I put on my good mother hat, and opened the book. And you know what?
It wasn't that bad.
He had actually completed 85% of the requirements just through things we naturally do as a family or projects he has worked on with Matt. So, we buckled down and completed the last few assignments and, Voila! He was a Wolf!

So, the fact that they put a little pin on the Mother to give her an award as well as the Scout may have been a little undeserved on my part.

I know I make it sound inconsequential, but it really is quite an accomplishment. If you look at all of the activities laid out together, it really is a big accomplishment. And he did more than was necessary, earning a few extra silver arrows! What a great boy!

We sat down and made a goal to complete the Bear requirements by the end of the Summer so that we don't have the same January Mad Rush again.

At the end of Pack Meeting, they had some fun activities, and the boys were put into teams and had to climb this rope.

Those gargantuan genes I mentioned previously sure do come in handy sometimes!

He wasted them! Okay, maybe that's not a very "Scout Mom" thing to say, but it's true!! And I never asked to be a Scout Mom anyway!

After the boys got done, Daphne gave it a try. I think this inspired her to become a monkey climber (you'll see in a post to come soon)!

We had a great night and we are so proud of our boy! Really, it is so impressive that he accomplished this task in spite of his City-girl, Prissy, Shopping, Anti-Camping Mom. My goal is to be more proactive and supportive during the year of the Bear, and I think we are well on our way!