Vacation Bible School (2012)

This is Annabelle's second year doing Vacation Bible School (and my second year working as well).  It is Sophia's first, though Vacation Bible School for her is strictly play.  She is in the younger of the two nurseries based on her age, so she has not had the opportunity to enjoy the festivities.  Though I have brought home some crafts for her to do because she generally wants to do everything that her big sister is doing.

I am a co-lead on the Crafts Team this year.  Our church is using Cokesbury's Operation Overboard theme this year.  We have approximately 300 kids!  I never dreamed the amount of hours that goes into planning and preparation before the event.  It has been fun, but I'm not sure I will work VBS again next year.  I think I would really enjoy spending that time with just Sophia since she rarely ever gets any Mommy and Sophia time (without Annabelle that is).

Here is a picture of Annabelle on her first day of VBS wearing her Noah's Ark necklace that she made.  Her favorite activity for Monday was snack with music being a close second!  The snack on Monday was large pretzel sticks dipped into icing to fish for graham cracker goldfish.

I need to get a picture of Sophia in her VBS shirt as well.  It is way too big on her, but she refused to take it off after I put her in it, so she has worn it every day since.  As I marched her to the nursery this morning, she said, "I don't like dat."  She hasn't cried all week, but when I picked her up this afternoon, the lady in nursery said she hadn't cried all day until about 10 minutes before I arrived.  They weren't sure if some older boys who had entered the nursery had scared her or if she was just tired.  I am sure it was probably a little bit of both as she kept talking about, "Dat boy scared me!"  And she hasn't napped well all week or fallen asleep at a decent time in the evenings either.  Even though we would lay her down by 8:30 p.m., she was still up talking until 9:40 p.m. or so on some nights.  And it seems she is now coming down with a cold.

It is weeks like these that I am so thankful my girls have been home with me all along.  I just find that too much stimulation during the day during these younger years is too much for my kiddos!  Though it has actually not tired Annabelle out this year.  She is getting slower and slower each morning, but she still moves full speed ahead in the afternoons and evenings.  We've even managed to work in a few "boxes" with school.  Though we are certainly not moving full-speed or even half-speed ahead on school this week!