Belt Loop Mania

The last Pack Meeting of the summer was this past Wednesday (6/23). Ben was able to earn his basketball and marbles belt loops, as well as the music pin. The basketball one he earned with his group so several boys earned that one as well. The marbles one he earned pretty easily because he has some marbles that the lady who worked for us on the island gave to him and he was all excited to learn how to play - and that was before he knew about the belt loop. The music belt loop was earned last month so he did five more things to earn the pin. I wanted pictures this time so I told Marissa to go up with him. She hesitated and Xiomara said, "I'll go." They both ended up there and it was cute. So, here are some pictures from the pack meeting. Fortunately, we have some great leaders so the girls really enjoy going and we all have fun!

The first game they played... they had to "fish" for a bottle. The object of the game was to get the ring around the neck of the bottle and try to stand the bottle up on the board. I think only two of the boys were able to do it but everyone had fun trying. My Ben is on the right, but the other boy's name is also Ben so we could just shout out, "Go Ben" and both were cheered on!


Xiomara was excited to participate and it was funny to watch her. After a little while she bent over and used her hand to put the ring on the bottle. Then she'd stand up and try to pull the bottle up. It was funny.


Marissa also gave it a try. One time she was able to get the bottle part way up and it rolled around on the edge of the bottom of the bottle for a while before it fell off the board.

Here's Ben getting his belt loops and pin, with the support of his sisters. The quilt squares behind them will be put together to make a quilt (obviously) once they have all the boys squares to celebrate the 100th year of Boy Scouts.

We went outside for three other games (of which I didn't take any pictures). Then I decided to take a picture of Kemiah with these purple flowers in the back. Just lovely. She is holding a stick with a jar lid ring attached to it. You try to get the stick through the center of the lid. The kids all came home with one!