December Feast Days

Though we didn't do everything I would have liked to do, we did manage to celebrate a few of the many special feast days during Advent.

Starting with the Feast of St. Andrew...

 Fishers of ...goldfish! :)  Pretzel stick fishing rods and goldfish!

 Due to a peanut allergy, the Professor was using cream cheese, but the other boys used peanut butter.

 They had a blast!

Then...Feast of St. Nicholas...

We don't have much need for slippers here in the south, so I just used their shoes.

These coins were such a fantastic idea Jessica came up with.  I have gotten so many wonderful ideas from her!!!!  She was so very generous and shared her documents with the rest of us. She also provides links for Christmas coins that I made for our nieces.  So cute!

Of course, the boys all received books :)

They really liked this tradition and I think it's a keeper. 

Advent Happenings

Making our Christ candle.  Very simple rub-ons that I picked up at Michael's at last year's post Christmas sale.

Inspired by Jessica's post from last year, I created an O'Antiphon's house of our own.  She so very sweetly shared the document she used for her house and I was well on my way :)

Some purple spray paint left from Lent, some gold from Easter and a trip to Michael's and I was all set.  They didn't have any blocks in the size I needed, so we got one large block and hubby cut them down to size for me.

Also inspired by Jessica, we celebrated the O'Antiphon days with their own special activity.  Each day was a hit and the kids were so excited about the next day.  This is definitely a tradition that we'll be keeping around here!

December 17th ~ O Wisdom ~ We gave the kids each a book.  Unfortunately I wasn't fast enough to catch them...but they got books about Epiphany

December 18th~O Adonai~ Gingerbread house kit!  The boys and their daddy had a blast putting it together.  I think they did a rather nice job for their first time :)

December 19th~O Root of Jesse~ I had planned on making a stew or soup of some kind including root veggies, but I ran out of time.  So I settled with reading The Legend of the Poinsettia by Tomie dePaola.  BTW...did you hear his good news???  Another good idea would be these cupcakes.

December 20th ~ O Key of David ~ Key lime pie, of course!  I think I may need to find something else because the boys weren't too into this pie. :(

December 21st ~ O Dayspring ~ We went for a Christmas light drive.  Other ideas.

December 22nd ~ O King ~ the plan was to make crowns or crown shaped sugar cookies.  Notice I said "the plan"...

December 23rd ~ O Emmanuel ~ We didn't really do anything for this.  But I'm in love with this chocolate Nativity set Jessica made.  Of course she has other wonderful ideas to go along with O Antiphons too :)

Of course we had our Advent wreath, Jesse Tree, and other countdown calendars as well as our Nativity set.  (I see that I neglected to post pictures of the completed donkey...)

When we rearranged the house we neglected to leave space for the Christmas tree :(  So we searched and procrastinated. Finally we decided to put it in the corner of the dining area.  You can see a bit of it in the picture above.  There was no room for the angel though, so she resided on top of one of the bookcases looking over the whole room.

December Pack Meeting

Since we were so close to Christmas, not too many people showed up.  The Professor was the only one that earned anything.  He has continued in his progress toward ranks and has earned another bead.  In fact, he's only 2 activities short of earning his 4th and last bead and getting his wolf badge!!!  I'm so proud of him.  He's worked hard.

Veteran's Day parade

Another event I neglected to post about (insert sheepish grin here) :)

 

The Professor's the one in sunglasses.

 

Of course Doodlebug couldn't be left out ;)

November Pack Meeting

It's come to my attention that I have horribly neglected this blog. :(  Sorry everyone!  Things got pretty busy around here...I'm sure you can all empathize :)

Going back a while, I'll attempt to catch you up, without overwhelming you :)

At the November cub scouts pack meeting The Professor earned...

his first 2 beads!  To earn their wolf badges, they must complete 12 requirements.  For every 3 requirements they complete, they earn a bead to go on a "progress toward ranks" cord.

He also got his soapbox derby "license".  Super excited!!

On Veterans Day his pack was in a parade (did I post about this????).  Cubmaster put a patches for the parade in some balloons. The only way the boys could get the patch was to pop the balloon.  I totally did not expect The Professor to get up there and pop one, but he did!!!!

Halloween ~ 2010

The Professor...Firefighter

Velcro Boy...dinosaur

Doodlebug...The cutest candy corn you ever saw :)

 I made each of them a bag for trick or treating.  There are ghosts on the ones on either end.

The one in the middle has a bat on the front.

Cub Scouts October pack meeting

Hangin' with the guys.  They were supposed to make a picture with scraps of paper, he made a dinosaur :)

Getting his kickball beltloop.

Pinewood Derby car kit!  He already has his sketched out.  He wanted to start cutting it, but we don't have the tools :)

Computers beltloop.

Putting on his denner cords.

 The kids in each den will take turns being the "denner".  They will take attendance at each meeting, relay any information from the cubmaster to the kids, etc.  It's a leadership position that's meant to encourage independence, leadership skills as well as improving relating to others.