Dinosaurs take over camp

November means fall Girl Scout Camp. This is something the troop looks forward to each year. We have been going to camp for a long time. 

This year camp was back at Camp Kachina or now it's called Camp Bluebonnet Shores. It's in Belton on the lake.

Since Jewell is a still a Daisy, she had the choice of day camp or staying the night. If she stayed the night I would have to stay the night with her. Soooooo I chose for her, and we did day camp, lol. Girl Scout camp is a lot, lol. I remember going with the girls plenty of times when they were little and I'm just not ready for that. For her, she tends to get bored pretty easy and eventually just wants to go home so day camp was just fine.

This year's camp was all about dinosaurs! Jewell's favorite so I knew she would love camp this year. We reported first thing in the morning, we changed into our camp shirts, and she got her dino name, Speedysaurus, LOL

She also got her hat and made some binoculars.

We circled up and then headed to the first station. Each station was an hour long. A bit too long because the girls got bored really fast and then just started acting wild. 

But each station included a craft. They built bird houses and made wooden dinosaurs.

Then we had lunch which consisted of a sandwich, fruit, veggies, chips and some gummies.

Break time

She was loving camp. 

Her cute little bird house she made

They played gagaball and learned how to tie different kinds of knots

We went on a hike and found dinosaur eggs in the wild with baby dinosaurs in them

Station 4 she got to dig for dinos

Then it was time for afternoon snack

The last station was making bracelets

Then we were outta there headed home

Little Turkey

Tooth update: 

Although she looks very happy in this picture at the dentist office, she will be getting her entire tooth removed. I told her she has to be a big girl and just get it done. Dr. Boyd said it was not her molars coming in that the tooth was indeed still infected and there is no reason to try to save the tooth and cap it off because it will eventually fall out. So, we scheduled an appointment for a tooth extraction but meds first to clear up the infection. 

We were happy to be heading straight to Walgreens to pick up her medicine. No more painful tooth. There's nothing worse than tooth pain.

Thanksgiving is on its way, look at this little turkey hand Jewell made :)

Jewell and I are reading the book series, The Boxcar Children. It's a series of chapter books. It was one of my all-time favorite book series as a kid. We take turns reading a few chapters each night. Once we are done with the first book, we will watch the movie and continue on to the other books. I think there is like 150 books. Not sure we will read the entire collection, but we will see. So far, it's been fun reading together. 

Another fun thing we played is the game, Mall Madness. One of my favorite games growing up. Now that Jaina and Jolee are out of the game phase and don't want to play with her I or Justin step in and play games with her.

Silly girl 

First Playoff Game: Salado VS. Pearsall

We made it to the playoffs.

 We have mixed emotions about playoffs, only because Jaina is a twirler and not a football player, I guess it hits us differently since she's not actually playing football. We are excited that they have made it this far, but dang we are kinda over going to these games every week. Lol it's a lot.

 I know next year it will be a little different especially because it will be her senior year and every moment will be bittersweet. But anyways we are grateful she can be a part of these games, and we are taking it week by week.

The first playoff game is near San Antonio, TX in Converse, TX. We are playing against Pearsall. 

We took the girls out of school at 1:30 and headed for San Antonio.

Jolee did not want to go. I told her she could go to a friend's house, but all her friends were busy, so she had no choice but to come with us, but she was pretty content with going. Here she is making that dang face again, lol

We stopped in Kyle and ate at Lupe Tortilla's Mexican restaurant. It was yummy. We enjoyed our dinner and was not rushed. Then we headed on to the stadium.

When the game started, we made the first two touch downs with in the first couple of minutes. We knew this would be a blowout game. Poor Pearsall did not even stand a chance. I felt actually really bad for their team. 

About 30 minutes into the game Jewell started crying saying her tooth was hurting her (back right molar that is cracked). 

One thing about this child is that she doesn't hardly ever whine about anything, nor cry about nothing. Even when she was a baby when she would fall or get hurt, she would hardly ever cry. But man, I knew she was in pain. She was holding on to her mouth, crying, whining, wiggling around, saying she wanted to go home, I mean out of control crying. I brought some medicine with me; I took her out to the car and gave her some. Thinking that would do the trick and it didn't, like at all. 

I waited until halftime to see Jaina perform. 

Jaina did good as always. After halftime I took Jewell to the car. Thinking she would lay down on the backseat and go to sleep boy I was wrong. She was in full on panic mode, crying, pulling at her mouth and saying her tooth makes her want to die which then scared me thinking I needed to take her to the emergency room but knew they wouldn't be able to do anything for her. So, I texted Justin and said we needed to leave now. 

When they came out to the car there was 2 minutes left, the final score was 49-6. Pearsall got one touch down at the very end of the game with 2 minutes remaining. As soon as we left, we headed straight for CVS, I bought and gave her some Tylenol and bought some numbing oil. When I was looking in her mouth, I noticed her 6-year molars broke through on the right bottom side of her mouth. I bet it's not her tooth I bet it's her molars trying to break through her gum on that side. 

After the Tylenol she started to calm down a bit and finally fell asleep in the car on the way home. 

Once we got home, I got her settled in the bed. She was up and down several times during the night. She got in bed with us, then I got in bed with her, needless to say neither one of us got very much sleep. 

When we woke up in the morning, she said her tooth wasn't really hurting her anymore. The pain comes in waves and is worse at night.  Justin is going to take her first thing Monday morning to check to see if she has a tooth infection or just her molars coming it so we shall see. Hopefully she made it through the hardest part, and she won't be in as much pain after seeing the dentist. 

November Things

I gotta brag on this chick! One of the classes that she didn't think she was going to like that I kinda made her sign up for this year in school was theatre and she said she loves it! I knew she would like it; it's a class that she can totally be herself and express herself however she wants to without any other kid judging her. 

They are learning lines for their UIL play called The Book of Everything. They will perform it for the school, the public and go to contest for UIL. She wants to be an Angel in the play. She came home so excited and said "Mom, we have auditions tomorrow and I memorized all my lines." She read them to me a couple times. The next day she said she was the only person in class who memorized all their lines and nailed her audition! How exciting! She might not like the academics of school but when this child is interested in something she goes full speed! I can't wait to watch her act in the school play this spring :) 

This chick is also doing great in school. We are almost to the halfway mark of the school year.

Couple of pictures from school activities

She is loving basketball. Basketball practice is about 45 minutes. They spend the first 30 minutes dribbling, shooting the ball and basic techniques and the last 15 minutes they are learning a basketball dance that they will be performing in December at a UMHB women's basketball game. 

They rotate stations every 10 minutes. It's a good break for their attention span.

She can shoot that ball and make it into the basket.

Learning the dance

Salado Vs. Smithville

The very last regular game of the football season was an away game; we did not go too. Justin and I both had to work during the day. I did not want to trek Jolee and Jewell 2 1/2 hours away to Smithville for the game alone after work, so we stayed home and watched the game on tv. Of course, next year being Jaina's senior year will be totally different. We will go to any and all games and will not be missing out on anything. 

We won the game 48-21!

There was no halftime performance since this was an away game. I caught just a couple of glimpses of her twirling on the sideline but that was about it. 

 Jaina has a friend that wanted to take some "professional" photos of her in her uniform. I loved the way they turned out! So cute!

I still can't believe we have one more football season left and then we will be done. Crazy how fast it has gone by.