Belated Everything

Well, VBS (vacation bible school) is over. What a week we had. Adam was involved in drama all week and did a great job being Pharaoh. Caleb was involved in pre-k games. Rachel was in the nursery all week, and one day Julia was a crew leader. I was a floater and helped out where ever I was needed. Today, the big white bus was not available to pick up kids at the different apartment complexes, so I volunteered to go and pick up kids at one of them. It was amazing to me to see the kids just come running out of their homes when they heard me honk. Only one parent came out...... and I am not sure I would have been as trusting to just let my kids go off to some church for three hours. I was proud of the kids who decided to get up and come....... had it not been for me encouraging and pushing my own kids to get out the door, most of them would have rather stayed home and slept in. I hope this week made a difference for all the kids that came.

Here is the sanctuary full of kids. The church's goal was to raise $200 to buy bibles for Africa and the kids actually brought in $1000! Praise the Lord! That is alot of bibles!

To celebrate the last day, the kids got to play in the water! They all seemed to have a blast!

I just can't get over how beautiful and big-girlish Sveta looks. She did a great job on her frame.

So did Annalyn! Her teacher made each of the girls in her group their own little photo album. It was very thoughtful!

These little alligators were one of the crafts this week. Now I have lots of magnets on my fridge!

Caleb tried to get Dennis to play in the water. Dennis was more interested in eating Popsicles.

Caleb had fun hanging out with his friends on the water slides.

Adam really got into helping this year. It was fun for him to get an alligator cookie as a show of appreciation for his help!

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As a belated birthday gift, John went out and bought white paint so that he could paint the lattice that he built a few weeks ago (after telling me back then that he would not paint it because he hated painting even though he knew I wanted it painted).

I think it looks great! The worst part about the whole painting thing was all the paint the kids got on themselves. Let's just say that it took a while scrubbing all the paint off Jonny. After this little painting session, John and I both agree that little helpers don't necessarily make the job easier.
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Dennis found Anna's dress-up shoes and thought he would try them on.

Too cute, don't you think?

Andrew and Dennis watching tv together.

I taught Caleb how to give Anna her growth hormone shots so that when we go to Ukraine, he can have the responsibility of doing it. He was the only one besides Jonny that was willing to give them and there was no way Anna was going to let a five year old poke her with a needle. Anna is pretty smart, I think. ;)