We have had a busy couple of weeks!

Caitlin is a week and a half away from being a Middle Schooler! Can you believe it? It seems like yesterday we were in our first day of Kindergarten! I remember I had on a pair of light khaki pants and the activity of the morning was to put the kids footprints on paper with paint. Well, needless to say, I ended up with a blue footprint on my rear end compliments of Adam G. (unintentionally of course).

Now we are getting ready for 5th grade graduation. Jeff says it is ridiculous to have a celebration for something they are SUPPOSE to do. He is trying to get out of going. But Caitlin really wants us both there and since he hasn't done much at school, I made him take the day off. We start with a luncheon at 11:45am, followed by a slide show and then little party with the clap out at 3pm. Should be fun for the kids. I will probably be bawling like a baby with half of the other Moms.

Caitlin is auditioning for The Little Mermaid this Friday at the Starlight Theater. She is excited to be in another one of her favorites. She always liked the non-"princess" ones best....Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Mulan and Pochahontis were the best as far as she was concerned. She did awesome in Mulan as Ancestor Hong, she had lots of lines and several solo lines in songs. I think she did great and hopefully the director did too. She is hoping for one of the main parts in Little Mermaid. That show is at the end of July I think.

We are planning on doing basketball camp this summer and maybe Volleyball camp, but we will have to see. I am finding it nice to have my evenings free for this past week, so we may just commit to one evening thing during the summer. Of course she will also be at Proud Lake camp all summer during the day, and the zoo for a week, and theater camp for two weeks.

5 favorite things this week:
1 - Going to 5th grade camp with Caitlin. 5th grade camp was awesome (says Cait)! She went on a zipline, hiked through a bog and the wetlands, played lots of games, sang lots of songs, went to a bonfire, learn orieteering, canoed, fed the bunnies and goats dandelions at the petting farm, and had a blast! I stayed the entire time as a chaperone and got to experience it all too.
2 - Watching Caitlin play volleyball after 5th grade camp! Caitlin had two games the night we came home from 5th garde camp. She and Sydney were pretty much asleep while playing! The Green Machine won both games though! Yeah!
3 - Laughing at Neiko's cone. I know it shouldn't be funny, but we had Neiko neutered yesterday and they put this HUGE cone on his head and he cannot go through doorways or anything without getting stuck. It really is funny, but we of course feel bad at the same time......
4 - Mother's Day presents and outing. Caitlin made me a funny one eyed monster doll with a dress and glittery braclet and a beautiful card, then we went to the movies. A nice relaxing Mother's Day!
5 - Mornings with Mom's - Cait's school had muffins, juice, water, coffee, coffee cake and donuts and the Moms were invited to come up and have breakfast with their kids in the morning on Tuesday. It was so nice. Caitlin actually sat with me the whole time and then we went to the bookstore. She even held my hand walking down the hall....I love that!

Caitlin has three more Fridays of Volleyball games, we are in Howell tonight, Brighton next week and South Lyon the week after that. They have lost 2 and won 4. Whoohoo! Go Green Machine!

Caitlin has three more Saturdays of practice for Mulan, then the show the weekend of Memorial Day. She is excited and sings the songs constantly. I am glad the director is going back to the "older kids" shows, it is getting her excited about it again. He almost lost her with Winnie the Pooh and Cinderella. We will have to see what the summer show is to see if she plans on doing it or not. The Huron Valley Children's Theatre is doing Charlotte's Web in the fall and she wants to try out for that.

Summer is quickly approaching! She is registered for one week of Zoo Camp (it went up in price this year, so we are unsure if we can do two, with two weeks of Theater Camp also). She will be staying with Grandma Jusy for the week of 4th of July for thsi camp. She is also registered for 2 weeks of Theater Camp, one at the end of June and one in the middle of August. Then the rest of the summer she will be returning to Proud Lake Outdoor Adventure Camp where she has been going since Kindergarten. Sports will be done though which will be a nice break for me!

Caitlin and her friend Victoria particiapated in the Science Olympiad last night at the high school. They did the egg drop, which involved creating protection around an egg with straws and tape and dropping it on a target. They didn't do too bad, but didn't place in the top three. At least they tried though! Out of 14 teams, 11 eggs broke including Caitlin's. It was fun to watch!!

I am waaaay behind!
First let me tell you about the Planetarium. Caitlin had a blast! We spent the night at the Planetarium in Flint. We slept under the black lights which lit up a space scene on the walls, it was really cool to look at, but for someone who cannot sleep with the lights on, it was annoying after about 15 minutes. I did not get much sleep that night! But I did (being the camper that I am) sleep on the floor in my sleeping bag as opposed to some of the other Mom's who thought it was necessary to bring queen sized aerobeds that took up huge amounts of room! Geez!
The girls got to do some really neat activities, like design a video game and make a rollercoaster for a marble out of foam. Then they saw a light show (which made me feel sick), had a snack and went to bed. It was a cool trip, we haven't done much in the way of scout stuff this year, so it was fun to do, and only 1 girl missed it!  Oh, did I mention that I got off at the wrong exit and ended up driving around a not so inviting part of Flint.......I asked Jeff for TomTom for my birthday!