Cub Scouts

Forgive me as a journey back into spring of this year. I never got a chance to post information about Joshua’s Baptism or his first day at Cub Scouts. I will post the Baptism information in my next post.

This is a picture of Joshua on his first day of Cub Scouts.

Of course when your kids turn eight suddenly other people don’t mind being with your kids quite so much and so they begin having activities in their lives that take them away from you for short periods of time. For young boys that are members of the church this begins with Cub Scouts. He was very fortunate to enter Cubs about ten days before the much-anticipated Cub Scout Day Camp. Joshua thought that every weekend was going to be AWESOME after spending Thursday, Friday and Saturday hiking, riding bikes, shooting paint ball guns and swimming…a lot. Also, he managed pass off a bunch of Cub Scout requirements. It was such a let down to him when we told him that Cub Scout Day Camp is only once a year! He had a great time.

Another funny story that has happened since then is that his Cub Scout Troop was invited a few weeks ago to help pack boxes of food for a local food bank very early on a Saturday morning. He had a great time. The next Sunday the Bishop announced over the pulpit that the Cub’s had done such a great job at this activity that St. Anne’s Food Bank wanted to invite them back every Saturday. Early the next Saturday morning in came Joshua, ready for another day at the food bank. It was tough to convince him that the Bishop was just making a point about how good the boys had been and that the Cubs weren’t going to literally going to spend every Saturday morning at 6 a.m. at St. Anne’s. He was really disappointed.