Vacation Bible School

I'll be posting more about this soon with pictures, but I wanted to get it started so I don't get behind on it. So come back if you want to know more about our VBS week.

It's been a hard week because we've had swim lessons every morning and VBS every night. We've been getting up to work out, swim, nap, VBS, late bedtime then repeating the cycle for the last week. I'm going a little crazy to say the least.

But, tonight was pretty cute. I was helping out with some big kids so I didn't get to see the kids much, but I got to see them in the big assembly part. Mikey and Sami are in the same class and it's so fun to watch their relationship in settings without my supervision. Mikey watches out for Sami (and even steps in with occasional disciplining when he sees fit). During the assembly they were in the very front row, touching the stage, cuddling together. They had their arms around eachother (even with Mikey's thumb sucking/hair twirling habit). At one point, Mikey was telling Sami secrets. It was fun for me to watch - I missed some of what was happening on stage because I was so busy watching them.

Afterwards they always talk about everything they learned that evening. They are basically learning much of the basics of the Bible. Tonight was about the Tower of Babel and they learned about other languages. Mikey was proud of his teacher that she could speak Spanish. Lately he's been picking up on Spanish and I wish I could teach him more. But what was very interesting was when I reminded him that his Nana ("Daddy's Mommy") speaks Chinese he became so excited and wanted to know more. Unfortunately, I couldn't go very far with it because I don't know any Chinese. I finally made him happy when I offered two action items: first to call Nana and ask her to count to ten in Chinese and two, to tell his teacher that his Nana speaks Chinese. To both he answered with a resounding, "Yes, that's a really good idea!"

Okay, that's all for now. I'll get back with some more and some pictures.