Cadets is a boys’ program Ethan has been participating in all year through our church.  It’s for guys in 1st grade through 8th grade, so next year Micah will participate, too.  Anyway, every summer they have a campout with the dads.  My uncle is one of the leaders, so he played a huge part in organizing the event and two of our cousins were there participating this year, too.  I heard nothing but wonderful things about it!  One of the traditions of the Cadet Campout is to do some sort of mission project at Long Scraggy. This year they put up a playground.  Mike took a pic of E by it knowing that we’ll have a few years to keep snapping this same shot of him (and his bro).

After the car was all packed up and they were about 5 minutes away from their departure, Ethan fell backwards when playing with his buddy.  A picnic table corner broke his fall and he ended up with a pretty sizable gash in the back of his head.  They cleaned him up and bandaged his head and Mike drove out of the mountains to the closest Urgent Care facility.  Our brave guy got two staples in his head there and will hopefully have them out already this Sunday.  We are all super thankful that I wasn’t a part of this campout.  Mike had to warn me via text about it before they arrived and I still had to sit down just to hear about it!  Eek.

This was the first medical issue we faced with this boy!  We’re pretty impressed to have made it until he was 9 before he had anything serious happen!