Logan had his second game on Saturday; he is always excited for the “real” games.  The game was fun to watch as there were a few quite good players and it was relatively fast pace.  Logan was his usual “not too aggressive” self during the play, not assertive for rebound and not really ready for the ball sometimes.  He had procession of the balls slightly more in this game and had dribbled it down the court a few times.  He gave the ball away a bit too quickly whenever he was being guarded but he passed it nicely to his teammates most of the times.  Logan made three baskets.  The first one happened when the ball came to him and he quickly put it into the basket above him but unfortunately it was the opponent basket.  The other two happened when Logan dribbled down the court and found an opening, so he proceeded and made the basket.  He actually was pleased with those as he told us how he did it when he came over for water.  it was nice to see some reaction from Logan and see how proud he was. 

    So now Logan had just finished the first week of Camp Galileo.  He seemed to have fun or at least he said he had.  But we really do not know much about how the week went.  Logan is the worst in recalling things he did and there is no difference this time.  We tried to ask many open questions but we only learned some minimal things.  The topic for this week was the “Human Body”, so Logan did learn some facts about the body.  He wore a yellow “theme color” shirt one day and a crazy hat on another day.  He had a water day where he said he was sprayed with water by the team leaders.  He learned a few names of his teammates but we were not sure if he played with them.  According to the team leader’s notes, Logan was enthusiastic and determined to finish the projects and he got along well with all the teammates.  Today Logan brought home several projects they had made during the week. 

      Logan is returning to this camp for three more different “theme” weeks, so hopefully he is really enjoying it.

     Since we got home earlier today, I took the boys to the Cabana Club while Stuart finished up his work.  They wanted to play at the sandbox again, so we started there first.  After playing for quite awhile, we headed over to the wading pool.  There were several other kids there so both boys just walked around in the water.  When it became less crowded, I asked Logan if he wanted to dive into the water again and he did it.  After just a couple of minutes, Logan became more comfortable and repeatedly putting his head in the water for the rest of the time we were there (at least 20-30 minutes).  He was diving and chasing Connor around the edge of the pool which Connor had a great laugh from it.  Later he even got Connor motivated to put his face in water too.

    The boys started new schools today, and we had been preparing them mentally the past couple of days.  This morning after Logan woke up, he discovered that he could not play games and he was slightly grumpy about it.  Then when he and I were sitting together, he told me that he was nervous to go to the new place and that he might cry.  I tried to be positive and had him focus on the fun aspect of camps.  Both Stuart and I were a bit worried about how their drop off would go, but fortunately it went quite well.

   Connor and I accompanied Logan to the school where the summer camp was held.  We asked for a quick tour and a camp leader showed Logan and us around.  Logan looked expressionless but he was following instruction well about where to put his backpack and where to go.  When it was time to go inside, Logan did not say bye to us and just followed the crowd to walk in.  I could tell that he was nervous as he was picking his nails, but at least he did not cry or show any hesitation.  When Connor and I arrived at his new school, he was happy as he recognized the place from the open house few months ago.  He was telling me how there were similar structures at his old school.  While we were walking in, he did tell me how he missed his teachers and the one teacher who used to chase him around in the mornings.  Once we were inside the classroom, Connor was holding on to me tighter.  We walked around the room to familiar him to different things, especially the bathroom and the sink area.  Connor showed me how he could wash his hands there.  Afterward we said hi to the second teacher who just came in.  Miss Julie talked to Connor about Duplo and he agreed to stay to play with her.  I then said goodbye to him and left.

    Stuart and I went together to pick up the boys at the end of the day.  We arrived at Logan’s school first; by the time we spotted him in the extended care room, he was just walking around so we did not see what he was doing prior to that.  He was happy to see us and he told us that he had fun.  We tried to get some information about how the day went, but we got nothing.  He kept changing his answer so many times that we did not even find out how many classmates in his team.  He did tell us that he saw a couple of schoolmates he knew from the previous school and he shared a couple things he learned about the “Human Body” as it was the theme for this week camp.  One more thing he did say was that he did not have to use his pencils even once today.  As soon as we walked in to Connor’s class, I saw the teacher sitting down talking to the kids and there were a few kids standing around her.  Connor was one of them; he was raising his hand and saying something to the teacher.  Once Connor saw us, he smiled but froze there for a little bit before he finally ran over to us for a hug.  He also told us that he had a good day and the school had a fire drill.  But after that, he told us few other things that he just made up for us.  We might have to install a hidden camera in order to find out what these boys are doing during the day.

     The day after Logan’s birthday, Connor started talking with us about his birthday.  Connor told us that “I want to go golfing on my birthday…I want to have many people there…I want the banner but I don’t want someone fighting (referring to the superheros)…I want balloons and many of them….I like all colors, but no golden and no rainbow colors…I want goodie bags too…I want to play inside first but we can go outside at the last part”.  He is a chatter box lately.

    We did not have an agenda today so we decided to do some exercise.  We took the kids to play tennis first; they both enjoyed it and did fine.  While they were having a snack, Stuart and I got to play and we had a good rally.  After snack, we played two on two for awhile.  We then moved on to basketball.  We played our family game again and Logan was quite assertive; once again I was the one who got tired first and needed to stop.  As we were packing up to leave, Connor reminded us that he did not get to play soccer.  We were going to let him kick a few near our car, but surprisingly Logan wanted to play.  Logan dribbled the ball quite fast that I barely could keep up with him.  The boys tried to steal the ball from each other; later Logan became the goalie and Connor tried to shoot.  We ended up playing for another 15 minutes or longer.

    After nap, I took the boys to the Cabana Club to play, letting Stuart have a chance to watch the World Cup.  We started at the sand box and all three of us had a good time digging and making castles.  We were there a lot longer than I expected as we were still there when Stuart came join us.  After snack, we got the kids into the big pool to swim even though neither of them were interested.  Connor warmed up quickly and wanted to jump down into the pool.  Logan was his usual self.  Ten minutes later when the whistle went off, all the children had to come out, so we migrated to the wading pool.  Stuart and I took turns doing a little swimming on our own.  Fifteen minutes later when the children could return to big pool, Connor wanted to go back; so he and I went back there to play.  Later when Connor and I returned to the wading pool, Stuart told me to watch Logan.  He was diving his head into the water to look for the diving toys.  He kept doing it many times and looked quite comfortable too.  He even got Connor interested to put his face into the water to look too.  We were so excited with this big step for Logan.  He even said he wanted to come back to play another day.  As we were walking home, Connor said “I love the Cabana Club”.