Thursday July 15th (Parents' Night)

Thursday was an exciting day. I let her wear a skort (that's skirt + shorts for those of you who are fashionally challenged) so she was, as you can imagine, quite pleased. Making her day even more special, today she had Music and they played Bad Romance! WOO-HOO! So I guess I am not such a bad parent after all! Lady Gaga is camp approved!


She was mum on 'Group Choice" and "Counselor Activity" but I have a feeling the group choice was to roll around in the sand pit and the counselor activity was practicing for parents' night. I know, I'm a genius. I already knew that. Sadly, Alex did not climb Everest today. She is quite resistant to the idea, but we still have 6 more opportunities so let's keep our fingers crossed. She was talking about Spiderman today and how much she likes him (and he is REAL, by the way, she saw him) so I told her that Spidey would be GREAT at climbing the tower. We'll see if that helps. Doubtful.

They also had Farm yesterday and they saw bunnies. She 'insisted' they were this big! Well, maybe they were only this big:
On to parents' night.... As I already told you, (1) we're lame and (2) we did not get to meet Bumbo. Do I need to go any further? It has not been a good couple of days for me. This morning, when I went to wake her, already dressed for work, she looked at me and asked why I wore my clothes to bed. So apparently I am both incredibly lame and look like I just rolled out of bed. Great. Maybe if I wore headbands and hello kitty I'd be cool again.

Parents' Night was pretty cute, all in all. Each group sang the Little Red Wagon song and then there was the all-group finale song. She would not pose for pics (she completely turned her back on us, as you can see here.
She had her sunglasses on the whole time (she was the only one), was the smallest (it didn't help that they placed her between two of the taller girls) but she was also the cutest (I'm not biased) and she dissed me for the high five. In front of people. They laughed.

And finally, these are the 'sticks' that Alex collected and named "Deedee".


Her counselor said she 'insisted' (again) that she carry them around all day and she decided to take them home. Rocks, sand and now sticks. When I asked her why she had them and took them home she said "because they are my friends". At least she has an active imagination! Silver lining people, silver lining.