In Awe

Our church is holding VBX (like VBS, but X-treme!!) this week, in the evenings. Lehr and I are both working when we can, so the kids are getting exposed to some of the cool stuff going on. Maddie stays in her class the whole time (usually with Daddy), but Eli's class gets to participate in the 'rally' held in the auditorium before going back for a neat lesson. The rally consists of older kids doing amazing skateboard tricks on and off of the stage. X-treme sports footage is played on the big screens, and loud music blares over it all. Eli just sat in his seat and stared, taking it all in. From there, a short skit is put on (characters played out by people Eli knows well from church), followed by some counselor games. Tonight, the game consisted of the adults using only their mouths to find and use a whistle buried under a pile of whipped cream. The first one to make a sound won. The rally ended with music, which was very upbeat and punctuated with hand and arm movements. Again, Eli just sat and took it all in. But he couldn't stop talking about it on the way home.

Maddux. MadduxMadduxMaddux. She was fine in her room, but the other kids might not have felt the same. According to Lehr, she 'terrorized' the other little boys in there. Maddie was the only girl, and I think she was older than all but one of her classmates. Instead of being somewhat sweet, like she usually is with 'babies', she took their toys and told them, "NO!" in her very-recent-but-all-too-familiar sassy voice. Let's all take a breath...