Last week was Vacation Bible School and the week before we had all kinds of preparations, namely decorating our classrooms. The theme was sports this year. I'll have some pictures pretty soon. It was a fun, although exhausting week.
Highlights:
*While trying to get the kids to guess the country Germany, one of the clues given was "Home of Beethoven." AN, a second-grader, recounted when Beethoven wrote his first symphony and at what age, as well as what symphony he wrote before his death and when he died. After spouting these facts, he quickly covered his mouth with his hand and then said, "Oops. Was that too much information?"
*We watched several videos about missions, and after one video, I asked the 1st grade class what had happened in the video. AN said, "I don't know, because I was playing invisible basketball."
My brother, Crab Cakes, my nephew, French Fry, and Crab Cakes' girlfriend, Sugar Cookie, are here for a visit. Yesterday we went to Galveston. We ate at my favorite, The Spot, then went to Murdoch's gift shop / Mermaid Pier (the best one in Galveston - so much fun), then crossed the ferry on the east side of the island and spent about three hours at the beach on Bolivar Peninsula. It was a wonderful, amazing day.
Noodle wasn't sure of the water at first. She would go out with me as long as I was holding her hand, then when the waves hit her, she'd run back to shore for a drink.
"Come with me, Mommy," she said, "Hold my hand. Don't let go of my hand."
We found many hermit crabs in the water, and the kids had fun collecting them and putting them in their buckets. By the time we left, we had found about 20 of them. It was neat to watch them digging around in the sand in the buckets. Sugar Cookie gets the award for Most Hermit Crabs Found. Every time that girl put her foot in the water, she'd come out with a hermit crab.
I'll be working quite a bit up until time for our vacation. I can not WAIT for vacation!!!!! We leave on the 20th. It is going to be out of control. Too much fun. Can't wait. CAN NOT WAIT!
Happy 4th everyone! Sending much love to all of you.
4 comments:
happy fourth of july to the tasty tidbits family :) have a wonderful day! :)
your descriptions of galveston bring back childhood memories of that place :) i used to love the shell shops!
AN sounds amazing!
He IS!!! He was adopted from Russia, and is a brown-eyed ball of energy who is a GENIUS and loves to hug and talk. I LOVE him!
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