We love watching CG at our house.
We've learned lots of things:
*like how to make rainbows with a glass of water
*how to make a metal detector using a radio and calculator
*how a well works
you know all important things!
Well today as we were watching, Landon looked up and said, "Where is George's mother? Is she dead?" That lead us to another topic! Finally I got him to understand that George is like our dog Max. He's part of our family but not our child. He has a mother that is like him and not like me!
Gotta love Curious George and Curious Landon!
Friday, June 10, 2011
Thursday, June 9, 2011
Whirl wind
Life has been very busy lately. What has happened? I thought that things were supposed to slow down as summer approached. Not this summer--well at least not for a few more weeks!
The big kids went to beach blast with our church this week! They had a great time and neither one got sunburned. Well one is pink on the face but no major sunburn!!! And they weren't eaten by a shark. They left Sunday afternoon and the first thing I saw on the news website Sunday evening was about them clearing the water at Myrtle Beach on Sunday because of a shark. Just a reminder for me to hand them over to God daily! Then my parents blessed me by taking home both of the little people. Man my house was quiet!!!
I'm in charge of preschool crafts this year for about 300 kids. I'm pretty excited and think we have some cute/fun things for them. I sure hope they think so!!! There is a great team of ladies and youth helping and we are going to have a great week. That being said, there is something about getting crafts ready for VBS. I've had a "bad" past few days with one of my "easy" crafts. It is going to be so cute as soon as I figure out how to fix a small glitch related to the LARGE size of this craft! We (all the people's brains I've been picking about this) will come up with a plan--I have 2 but one involves LOTS of cutting on my part and possibly that of the wonderful ladies helping me but who may never speak to me again if I say that we need to cut the center out of 1800 paper plates by Wednesday morning. Hummm back to the drawing board on that one!
Every year at VBS time, I think back to a particular VBS when we lived in Greenwood. Drew was 5 and Shelby was 2. Melinda, my friend, was in charge of VBS crafts for the entire church--not big enough to have a preschool craft person and an elementary craft person--and she had asked me to help her with a "small" project. What did she need? To make 100s of beads out of dough!! We didn't have a huge budget and we lived in a small town--no craft stores! So we were making these things while sitting on my back porch. Not to bad until you know this....Drew was inside throwing up! Melinda's girls who were (2, 1 and 1) and Shelby were playing on the back porch with us. Helping as all 1 and 2 year olds do! So Drew doesn't go to night 2. Day 3 rolls around and we are back at it finishing the last beads when we get the call that VBS is cancelled. Yep CANCELLED--not just for that night but for the rest of the week. Seems that I was not the only one with a sick child. We had so many staff and kids sick that we couldn't even staff our VBS!!!!!
I had never heard of canceling VBS before--EVER but we had no choice. Melinda and I still laugh about that week now. We were not laughing about it that year but now we can laugh about it and do!!! So this week in all the craziness that goes with getting ready for a VBS that will potentially have 1000 children, I'm thankful that I'm not making hand rolled dough beads!!!
Remember I said the big kids went to the beach? Well guess what I found when I opened one of their suit cases....a game, a bathing suit, 2 pair of socks, a dirty pair of shorts and a dirty t-shirt! Now trust me I sent said child with towels, several shorts, several t-shirts--you know clothes for a trip!!! I also gave the child a drawstring backpack for dirty laundry. It all went to the beach in the suitcase but "wouldn't fit in there to come home" and I didn't know it till we were home. We are still trying to locate said backpack--I'm hoping it's at the church. This same child was also kind enough to buy younger siblings who didn't get to go to beach blast a treat. The bag with said gifts and their own souvenir is? Well they had it at breakfast and we are trying to locate it now--hoping it's with the backpack! Are you laughing? Our children's minister was cracking up when she found out one of my kids came home with a basically empty suitcase! She asked where the clothes were and I told her that was what I wanted to know!!!!
So now after VBS both big kids are heading to week camp. I have to say I might be just a tad worried that one of them will not have any clothes when they get home!!!
So now that you have heard all about the fun we are having, you will understand my new theme song!!!
Here it goes....
The big kids went to beach blast with our church this week! They had a great time and neither one got sunburned. Well one is pink on the face but no major sunburn!!! And they weren't eaten by a shark. They left Sunday afternoon and the first thing I saw on the news website Sunday evening was about them clearing the water at Myrtle Beach on Sunday because of a shark. Just a reminder for me to hand them over to God daily! Then my parents blessed me by taking home both of the little people. Man my house was quiet!!!
I'm in charge of preschool crafts this year for about 300 kids. I'm pretty excited and think we have some cute/fun things for them. I sure hope they think so!!! There is a great team of ladies and youth helping and we are going to have a great week. That being said, there is something about getting crafts ready for VBS. I've had a "bad" past few days with one of my "easy" crafts. It is going to be so cute as soon as I figure out how to fix a small glitch related to the LARGE size of this craft! We (all the people's brains I've been picking about this) will come up with a plan--I have 2 but one involves LOTS of cutting on my part and possibly that of the wonderful ladies helping me but who may never speak to me again if I say that we need to cut the center out of 1800 paper plates by Wednesday morning. Hummm back to the drawing board on that one!
Every year at VBS time, I think back to a particular VBS when we lived in Greenwood. Drew was 5 and Shelby was 2. Melinda, my friend, was in charge of VBS crafts for the entire church--not big enough to have a preschool craft person and an elementary craft person--and she had asked me to help her with a "small" project. What did she need? To make 100s of beads out of dough!! We didn't have a huge budget and we lived in a small town--no craft stores! So we were making these things while sitting on my back porch. Not to bad until you know this....Drew was inside throwing up! Melinda's girls who were (2, 1 and 1) and Shelby were playing on the back porch with us. Helping as all 1 and 2 year olds do! So Drew doesn't go to night 2. Day 3 rolls around and we are back at it finishing the last beads when we get the call that VBS is cancelled. Yep CANCELLED--not just for that night but for the rest of the week. Seems that I was not the only one with a sick child. We had so many staff and kids sick that we couldn't even staff our VBS!!!!!
I had never heard of canceling VBS before--EVER but we had no choice. Melinda and I still laugh about that week now. We were not laughing about it that year but now we can laugh about it and do!!! So this week in all the craziness that goes with getting ready for a VBS that will potentially have 1000 children, I'm thankful that I'm not making hand rolled dough beads!!!
Remember I said the big kids went to the beach? Well guess what I found when I opened one of their suit cases....a game, a bathing suit, 2 pair of socks, a dirty pair of shorts and a dirty t-shirt! Now trust me I sent said child with towels, several shorts, several t-shirts--you know clothes for a trip!!! I also gave the child a drawstring backpack for dirty laundry. It all went to the beach in the suitcase but "wouldn't fit in there to come home" and I didn't know it till we were home. We are still trying to locate said backpack--I'm hoping it's at the church. This same child was also kind enough to buy younger siblings who didn't get to go to beach blast a treat. The bag with said gifts and their own souvenir is? Well they had it at breakfast and we are trying to locate it now--hoping it's with the backpack! Are you laughing? Our children's minister was cracking up when she found out one of my kids came home with a basically empty suitcase! She asked where the clothes were and I told her that was what I wanted to know!!!!
So now after VBS both big kids are heading to week camp. I have to say I might be just a tad worried that one of them will not have any clothes when they get home!!!
So now that you have heard all about the fun we are having, you will understand my new theme song!!!
Here it goes....
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