Shady Acres Day Camp - Day 2

Less chaotic! I got to the bus location. Jan soon followed and I rode up the hill with her. I came back down for 1 person and some stuff, then made it back up the hill before the girls made it up from the buses (which means I don't have to dodge children in a Dodge Ram!).

I was a little more organized getting things together for leaders, so things were just much less chaotic. I eventually got my tie dye done. I dripped dye on my toe through my shoe. Oops. I dyed 3 baby shirts, 1 t-shirt for me, plus 2 pairs of bandanas. I'll be rinsing them this afternoon and can hardly wait to see how they look! I'll also need to iron on the camp label for the shirt.

I left much earlier today, getting out of there shortly after three o'clock. I got home, showered, and napped!

Bradley Class - Session 1

After about a 45 minute nap (for me), I woke Elmo and we got ready to leave. We stopped at McD's and headed to the teacher's home. Elmo returned to work yesterday, even though he still hasn't passed any stones, and he was NOT well. He couldn't eat his dinner. The smell of mine was making his nausea worse. By the time we arrived, we thought he might vomit. The entire drive over I felt SO guilty for making him go with me, but neither of us wanted me to go alone. It really is a *couples* class and I need him there. He felt a bit better shortly after we arrived. It was still touch and go, but he made it through class like a champ!

The other people in our class are all nice enough. I don't know if any of them are "our people" but we certainly have pregnancy in common! I think we're the only ones that aren't married, but I don't think they even know that. Turned out we have 4 couples total. Class lasts 2 hours. We discussed the philosophies of Bradley Method vs others and then we did our exercises. I've been working on most of them already, but Elmo is supposed to help me with some of them, so he got to see how. He was right there with me, helping me through the relaxation exercise and being my buddy for the butterfly exercise. Now I need to make myself a poster or something to remember to do all my exercises. The teacher gave us little stickers to put somewhere to help us remember to do Kegels. heh

Fruit was served after class. I had some grapes and some cantaloupe. Yum!

Oh, and we're the furthest due date! We have 2 or 3 due in August! (We are due in late September.) They may not even finish classes before their births! I'm kind of dreading having no classmates in the end. Plus it is suggested that you continue going weekly until the baby arrives, but no one else will still be pregnant. :-\

Shady Acres Day Camp - Day 3

Today was even less chaotic. I arrived at camp with a few less minutes to spare. Jan showed up soon after and took me to the top of the hill. I set up the table and got chairs out while the PAs (Program Aides - teenagers) unloaded the truck. Then I went back down the hill for any other stuff / people. The buses were still waiting for any more campers. I stopped and picked up a leader at the bottom of the hill (she isn't supposed to climb the stairs). We still managed to beat the girls to camp. Yay! I didn't have to drive around children.

Jan (Camp Director - I'm there to help her) had already done a lot of the prep for the units. She knew where everyone's food for cookouts was, too. So I mostly just sat and got random stuff out of the craft tent today. She had things very much under control. I held the baby boy from the PreK unit some today and didn't seem to mind it as much this time. The boys didn't irritate me quite as much, either. Though kids walking through the tie dye shirts was driving me nuts! I finally bagged them all up to go home! It was surprising how clueless leaders were as to which groups of shirts belonged to their unit. Ugh.

I ate two pizza rolls from the boy's unit. They are flour tortillas with pizza sauce, mozzarella, and pepperoni rolled up inside. Then they put them in foil to heat them up in the fire. They weren't bad... which is amazing considering they were probably made by dirty little boy hands. Ick. I didn't have too much trouble blocking that out, though.

I stayed on top of the hill until the last trip today and we still made it out before four o'clock. There was a little cattiness on site today, but no one seemed to be ticked at me and everyone liked venting to me, so it was all good. I love getting to hang with Peggy.

I took my tie dye over to my mom's to rinse out and wash. I can NOT believe how vivid my colors came out this time! I used cotton, like I was supposed to do. I also pre-washed like I was supposed to do. And perhaps the colors were mixed pretty strong, but the stuff came out gorgeous! I get to wear my shirt tomorrow and I'm going to loan a shirt to Serena - she is certain she'll be with me tomorrow. I'll have to get pics of my items and show them off here... SO awesome!! Mom & Serena want me to do some tie dye for them, too! I can probably arrange that with Peggy... or buy the stuff if we can't schedule it. We shall see...