VBS 2010 ~ Egypt!

Last week was VBS week at church. The boys loved it! Every day they went and learned a little bit about God and Jesus (the church had a program set up even for the little kids) and came home with fun art projects, happy faces and tired little bodies from running around all morning. Every day on the way home Charlie fell asleep (or shortly after arriving home), and Jackson followed shortly after.

This was our second year at VBS together. Last year I helped with the "Purple Room", where the infants are watched while their mommies and daddies are helping in other parts of VBS. It's amazing to see how much kids grow in a years time! For example, last year Charlie and his buddy Logan played in the purple room, and this year they were buddies again in the "Blue Room". I have a feeling they'll be together throughout their school years, at least at Trinity. Maybe they'll be good friends? But remembering about how little they both were last year, and then looking at them this year was amazing to see.

I worked at the Toy Shop, where we taught the kids to play an Egyptian game called Tenet. The kids colored their boards, put stickers and stamps on the boards and then took them home to play with their families. Working in the "market place" where the Toy Shop was located at was such a different experience than working with the little kids (aka baby sitting). Every 15 minutes for 1 1/2 hrs or there abouts we got a group of 22 or 33 kids, roatating though our booth to learn about the game, make their boards, and then move on to another place. The youngest kids I think were 4 or 5 years old, and the older kids were in 5th or 6th grade. It was really interesting to see the range of personalities, abilities, language (both verbal and non-verbal), joy, enthusiasm, shyness, etc each child had at our booth. The way the kids colored the boards - quickly, precisely, scribbles, whatever - varied as well as their attention spans. Such a vast array of kids!