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Aaron has been back at Cubs for the past 2 weeks now and has enjoyed it again.  He did start up for a couple of weeks before lockdown 2, and received his 4 seasons badges, but it has been very stop start unfortunately.  Last week, he made and coloured in a bird house and last night, he had a small Christmas Party where they played games all night and generally had a lot of fun!

Bird House

4 Seasons Badges

From the 5th November until the 3rd December, lockdown 12 was enforced for England, so everything was cancelled again, apart from School this time as the Government wanted education to keep going.  Thank goodness for that!!!  However, it meant all clubs outside of school, which had only really started up again, were stopped, inc football, Beavers, Cubs and swimming lessons.  So we were again stuck at home and only allowed out for essential shopping and for some exercise.  The restrictions weren’t quite as severe as earlier in the year but the Government had to do something as deaths and hospital admissions were spiking again and we subsequently had a second spike of Covid-19.  So we were very lucky to go away for my 40th birthday weekend!!  Oh well!!

For the past half term, Aaron has been attending Cubs on a Wednesday evening from 6:30pm to 8pm to get introduced to it. He has been enjoying it as Sarah and Sarah are running that as well. He will be starting Cubs properly in September.

So, last Friday was his last Beavers session where he ‘swam up’ to Cubs officially. The parents of the Beavers ‘swimming up’ were asked to stay to watch a little ceremony where the Beaver got given their new Cubs jumper officially and also received a certificate and badge. We had got Aaron his new Cubs uniform a week or two ago, ready for this session. Aaron was quite nervous stood at the front and struggled to take his jumper off! haha He had to shake Sarah and Sarah’s hands, and also the head Beaver (Eric) who congratulated him on doing so well. It was quite sad really as Aaron had been at Beavers for 2 years! But at least he is now joining most of his friends in Cubs as a lot of them are slightly older than him so ‘swam up’ the previous school term. Aaron has learnt a lot at Beavers though and loves going, so Cubs will be awesome for him as well!

For the rest of his final Beavers session, they played indoor water games until near the end when the torrential wind and rain outside eased, so they went out and had water fights outside! At least we get our Friday evenings back now…..until Coby starts in 2020!

After Coby’s birthday party at Jump, Aaron had Beavers and it was a visit to Crownhill Fire Station. We had to miss the start of the session due to Coby’s party, but were allowed to stop in afterwards. 

It was very good and the Beavers were allowed to have a close up look of the Fire Engine and were shown what to do if you got caught alight, and various other things. Towards the end, they were all about to have a go on the fire hose but, typically, just before it was Aaron’s turn, the fire bell rang to say there was a real fire, so they had to pack up quickly and speed off! So Aaron missed out on that but they had to go and potentially put a real fire out, so you can’t blame them. 

It was a good session though and Aaron, and the other Beavers, enjoyed it there! Coby was allowed to go in with Kelly as well, so he had a bit of fun as well! 😉

The Beavers were meant to have a Friday night film night and sleepover before half term, but that had to be cancelled due to changes in the rules for adults being with them all night. Aaron wasn’t going to sleep over in the scout hut anyway as an adult would have had to stay with him (and Kelly and I didn’t want to do that!!) so they had to change it to a ‘midnight’ walk (at 6pm) and then a film and sweets after. Kelly went with him and the head Beaver took them, in the pitch black, all around the local area, into the muddy fields and woods! They were quite lagged with mud afterwards and Kelly was glad she took her boots to change into for the walk!! Aaron had great fun though but they didn’t see any Deer or other animals, which was a shame. They then watched a film and ate lots of naughty food before getting home just after 10pm, as they stayed behind to help tidy up. Beavers is a great thing to do as Aaron gets to do lots of awesome things that he likes! Coby has signed up already but has to be 5 before he starts and Ben wants to do it as well, but he is too old for Beavers now and none of his friends do it anyway.