Saturday, June 30, 2012

Vacation Bible School

Its been a busy June, but I think our summer is about to come to a screeching halt. The heat is suffocating and that means its time to hang out in the basement. We may even go ahead and start our kindergarten plans with Rebecca. The beginning of this month Rebecca, Levi and I all helped out with Vacation Bible School at church. Rebecca was one of my students, of course, and Levi was class mascot. One afternoon our little 'cubby' even fell asleep in our bear cave. The children loved having stories in the bear cave, armed with flshlights. Here are some pictures of the way our church decorated for Sonrise National Park. We have some really talented people at church who put in hours, and hours, and hours of hard work. It was an amazing week and we had roughly 120 children each day. 38 of those 120 were our 5 and under crowd and they were so cute and so much fun!


                                My 'Story Bear Cave' room...complete with a fishing stream and woods.
Somedays I'd have a group of little ones heading out the door while another group was crawling into the cave nad settling in for our lesson.

Our preschool director made this awesome 'cave' our of black plastic sheeting and we even had white Christmas lights in the top to look like stars.

A close up or our river....I thought the sparkling blue fabric was a cool way to make water.

Our snack table.

In the church foyer.

Also in the church foyer.


                                                   Don't wake baby bear!

                                           Inside the Beaver Craft Lodge
                                             Our Creative Beavers

                                               Another classroom was devoted to creative play!
                                     More from the creative play room.
  Another great snack station.

                                 Waterfall for the 'True Nature' reality show.
                                     The stage and set of "True Nature".

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Tie-Dye Summer Party

This afternoon we had several of Rebecca's little friends and my 'mom friends' over for a little tie-dye fun! The kids all made unique shirts, munched fruit, sipped tang and I think had a great time. I know Rebecca and I loved the project and the company!





Saturday, June 2, 2012

Ballerina Girl

Today ends Rebecca's stint as a ballerina. For the last six months she's been going to a studio here in town for a class called 'creative movement' at this age it really isn't ballet.....its 'creative'. She has really enjoyed it and today we got to see what they had learned. We even put on a little makeup for the occasion and she kept talking to herself in the mirror about being 'fancy'. She cracks us up! Levi wasn't very interested in the show this afternoon, but was having fun in the driveway this evening with his chalk. I think more chalk ends up in his mouth than on the sidewalk! He's really toddling around more too....gaining confidence each day!





                                            Don't even think about touching my chalk........
                                             I SAID, DON'T TOUCH MY CHALK!!!!!