Adventure Camp!

Okay, it's been four months since my last post. But I haven't given up. And rather than try to connect then to now in some smooth way, I'm just going to jump right in. FYI out of town family, pictures of Isabelle are being taken and will be posted.

James started Adventure Camp today—a free camp for kids sponsored by the Variety Club of St. Louis. It's offered three weeks in the summer, and we thought we'd give it a shot. The usual worries applied, but we figured that James would have fun doing something besides asking for his music toys non-stop because he's bored, which is his home routine.

Luke and Megan and I dropped him off this morning. Before I left, I watched him march around the room where we had dropped him—full of kids and teachers—in his sort of James-doing-reconnaissance way, then go up and kind of climb on the back of a counselor who was kneeling down to talk to another kid. When she turned around, James gave her a big hug. Not bad.

When we went to pick him up this afternoon, he came charging out of the gym where he had been playing ball, huge smile on his face, and gave me a giant hug. He was so happy! Here's the report from day one:

I spent time with: Katie Mace
During swim time I: was able to splash in the water and play with the beach ball.
During free time I was able to: play ball with my friends.
I had the most fun doing: swimming because I got to play ball while I was in the water.
I would like to be able to work on: participating during art class.
Tomorrow we will be doing and I need to bring: ice skating and I will need to bring warm clothes (St. Peters Rec Plex).
Other: I had a lot of fun today. I smiled and laughed almost the whole time.

Wow—ice skating! And warm clothes—it's 92 degrees at 8:30 as I finish this up.

More to follow, sooner than four months from now I hope.