Grandma Day Camp 2016

 About a week before Day Camp, we realized that the Olympics were coming up in a few weeks, so we had to change the theme, which means a T-shirt change.  That’s Amber and Mandy’s problem. Amber does our graphics for the t shirts, and Mandy uses her silhouette and cuts them out and does the iron ons.  The theme went along with the Olympic colors, and of course a mosquito added to the back for the Zika Virus.  So the nite before camp begins finds us finishing the shirts about midnight.  Next year we need to get them done earlier.  

True story about the shirts, when Malorie saw Kim's shirt she took to back pedaling and pointed out that "Grandma there's a bug"  and then when Addie put hers on, we heard a scream and she busts out with "I thought there was a bug on me!"  Throughout the week we all had that kind of reaction at sometime.

We always start with the flag ceremony...

You would think by now they would have it memorized, but you would be thinking wrong...  You would think we would get better pics, but we never do...

Then inside for camp songs...

Alice the Camel...

Then dividing into teams and making the team flags. They were divided into three teams for the week, and had to decide on their name and flag...

Brody wasn't here on the first day, so his team-- Addie and Abby made them the BAA team with a lamb with a man bun for their mascot. Jocie, Emmy, Malorie and Luke were Kearney's Finest.  Malorie decided at the last minute to try and paint their flag pink.  Kallie, Reed and Will  made themselves the Ferocious Fruit.  Kind of a Carmen Miranda Brazil theme.

 

Kim got her morning nap in…. 

 

 Then off to swimming. We were going to do relays and such, but figured out the big kids would win everything, so they just swam. 

 

Home for lunch- the committee made the food. On the first day, they always make rollups and veggies.  You will have to look at last year for a pic, if we have one...

Afternoon snack—Poop on Ice, of course! It was incredible this year!  for those who don't know, it is No Bake Cookies, hot over ice cream. DON'T stir it up together, it turns into nasty oatmeal. It has that warm chocolate thing over ice cream going on... 

While Kim took her afternoon nap, we prepared our boards for string art. Kim and I had Olympic outlines, but the kids each wanted something different. They got on the computer and figured out what they wanted, and painted the boards to get ready.

Then more songs and time to go home!