The girls at Nature Center camp, June 28-July2

Both girls got to do Nature Center camp this year. Jessie was very excited because this was her first year getting to go all day to camp, which also meant that she got to go swimming Wednesday afternoon at Markin Glen Park. This was Kat's first year of nature camp. She went 3 mornings of the week and I went with her. Next year she'll be able to go all five days, mornings only, and she'll be able to go on her own. They both love it there and are looking forward to next year.


This is Kat on her first day at the little kids pavillion. She had to have a blue chair every day.


Kat's friend Morgan was also at camp with her all week. She also had to sit next to Morgan every day.


Her artwork for the day. The theme of the day was frogs.

Checking out the stream on their hike for the day.

Leave it to Kat to find the rocks. She was more interested in playing with the rocks than looking for frogs in the stream.

Checking out the frog in the tank. They couldn't find one in the stream to show the kids so when they got back to the pavillion they brought over this one from the Adventure House.

Day 2 at the barn. She's petting the cow, Soda.

Artwork from barn animal day. This is her horse. Katie is the camp helper to her right. She loved Katie and looked forward to seeing her every day. Katie was the only one who could get her talking when she was being shy.

Kat insisted on having her picture taken on this tree. She called it "my tree".

What a surprise...she found rocks again. This was during their hike in the field when they were looking for flowers and different grasses.

Just a darn cute smile!

Day 3, making binoculars with Morgan for watching birds.

Kat and Katie checking each other out with their binoculars.

Using her binoculars on the hippo. I love seeing this hippo at the Nature Center. He's been there awhile, but I still remember playing on him at Maple Hill Mall when I was a kid.

Morgan climbing up with her.

This is Friday on Jessie's last day of camp. They had family time in the afternoon and they were doing face painting.

Kat with a butterfly on each cheek.

Jessie had her face painted to look like a unicorn. Her group did a skit for the parents and she was a unicorn in it.

They brought the hawk out for up close viewing. I can't remember what kind of hawk it is.

These pictures of Jessie were posted on the Nature Center website in a photo album for the week so I copied them from there since I wasn't with her at camp.

Jessie said they were digging for fossils here.

They were "painting" themselves with the dirt off the rocks here.

Eating lunch with everyone. This was another thing Jessie loved about all day camp. She got to eat lunch there. She's in the yellow shirt.

Off on a hike.

Checking out a frog up close.

That's her hand petting the frog.

Hiking again. They did lots of hiking.

Jessie's sitting on the towel in the front. This was the afternoon swimming. She brought a lot of that sand home with her, but she had A LOT of fun too!