I think it was a pretty routine Friday except we all knew we would be on Thanksgiving vacation for a week.  I know the kids were all happy about that and I think the teachers were too!

We didn't have our spelling test today.  I don't know why we haven't had them for the past couple weeks.  I still study them so I will be ready just in case they happen.

While I was at school Andy came over to help with a couple chores.  There was a dead branch hanging in a tree.  Andy pulled it down to the ground so it wouldn't fall on one of us kids when we play in the front yard.

I played until 4:15pm, then I had to come in to get cleaned up and get dressed in my Class A cub scout uniform.  My size 6 jeans were a little short, so Mommy bought me two new pairs of size 7 regular straight legged jeans.  I wore one of them.  They might be an inch too long, but they barely bunch up around my shoes.  Normally we have to sinch up the waist, but these jeans fit me perfectly.

I had a little snack of banana nut cake that GGM made and ice cream.  I knew I would be eating dinner at tonights event.

My pack wanted to show our appreciation to Montgomery County first responders so we invited them to a spaghetti dinner.

 Mommy had a sick headache so she couldn't take me to the First Responder's Dinner put on by my cub scout pack.  Grandma did volunteer to take me since she knew it would be dark and Barbara might be concerned about finding her way there and back in the dark.  But it was held at a school about 20 minutes from our home and Barbara knew right where it was so she happily took me. 

 Food ready to be served.

The dessert table.

Not all of the boys had arrived when Barbara took this picture.  There were about 20 cub scouts there and their leaders and a few parents.  Most parents did not stay.  

James and I were the only two tigers (first graders) there, and Tiger parents must stay at every event.
Barbara asked a couple of people if she could do something to help but they said they had it well organized but thank you for offering.  Barbara spend the evening talking with Allison, James' mom and watching me.

This event was from 5 to 7pm with policeman, fireman, and EMT's coming in any time to eat a spaghetti and salad dinner.  They had big dinner rolls, and lots of desserts.  To drink they had orange infused water and strawberry infused water and bottles of water.  Lots of people tried the infused water, like I did, but I decided I wanted bottled water, so Barbara drank my infused water.

 I was a greeter.

I said, "Thank you for your service.  Your dinner is that way.  Enjoy."  Or something like that.

 And I shook their hand.

I shook hands with about 8 or 9 first responders. 

They knew we were in awe of them.  They were friendly and made us feel good about what we were doing.

The older boys did the serving.  Here I am standing in line to get a plate of food.

I ate two plates of spaghetti and two dinner rolls.  I didn't want dessert.

I am guessing ther were about 30 to 35 first responders there and they mostly came before 6:30pm, so after that time we boys started playing Simon Says.  I won the game once and I got to be the caller.  In this picture I am wiggling another loose tooth.

At the end the head cub scout leader got us all to clear off and clean off tables and sweep the floor.

And we lined up to help carry out all the cooking supplies.  Notice Tigers have on orange scarves.  That makes it easy to pick me out of the pack.

I'm heading out the door with some kitchen supplies.  See the orange scarf?
There was lots of left-over food that the parents put in take home containers.  Then they handed out sacks of dinner rolls and salad to the boys to take home.  This was a fun event.   

 The servers wore rubber gloves.  I brought two of them home and we blew one of them up.  While cooking a popcorn snack I discovered the microwave vent would hole the balloon up in the air.

 When the microwave went off, the balloon fell.  I know I should not be standing on the kitchen counter wearing my shoes.  Things sometimes happen.

 Upstairs on Barbara's bed, we tried throwing popcorn into the air and catching it in our mouth.  I was sucessful about ten percent of the time.  Funny thing:  Barbara had never tried to do this.  She was sucessful a couple of times.  Cole is really good at it.  I know all I need is practice to get better.