interpretive patch-sewing competition

last friday night was the new-scouts-orientation
for nathan’s cub scout troop.
(he’s a newly-minted webelo this year)

we’re super excited that it’s henry’s first year as
an official scout (he went every week last year
with nathan as fun-tag-along-little-brother-mascot
but gets to wear a uniform this year).

and also that several familes we know + love
are joining scouts this year, as well.

yay.

so last night (after a very full wknd) cory and i
were talking thru last week’s happenings
(aka. what went on here while he was away) +
we were poking thru iphoto
after i had finally had a moment
to empty the camera.

and i thought he was going to
have a
heart
attack.

when he saw this photo he started
laughing so hard
i can’t even convey it.

listen, i was trying to be a
Good Mom
(what a joke).

so i scooped up all of the patches that
had been collecting, waiting to be sewn onto
nathan’s uniform + i attempted to
sew them on in time for friday night’s affair.

well, i didn’t exactly have
Any Idea
where they were supposed to go
on the acutal uniform,
so i started playing around with it.

a few on the left sleeve (in a pleasing pattern),
and a few on the right sleeve (color-coordinated),
and hey, i bet the pack numbers (664)
should go somewhere prominent.

apparently not.
apparently the way i did the
‘664′ is more
the ‘inmate’ look than
the ‘cub scout’ look.

at least nathan doesn’t know the difference.

any bets on how long it’s going to take me
to un-sew all of those patches + numbers?

kj’s brilliant ideas + time-saving-measures strike again.

what nathan is supposed to look like.