Vacation Bible School

Blythe and I are halfway through with Vacation Bible School. It's basically a camp that's from 5:30-8:00pm for 4 days. We eat dinner first, then learn the day's lesson/focus point, watch a skit, then the kids get in their groups and go around to 3 different 20-25 minute activities. Then we group back up for 10 minutes of closing (including one song and dance we do each day).

So really it's Blythe's first experience in a camp. Although she does take direction each day at day care (or so I'm led to believe), this is different because she doesn't know the people who are leading her around and telling her what to do. So the first day she was quite clueless about what was going on. But I think she had a good time. She did crafts, games, and playground (the preschool group does playground each day as one of their activities because who are we kidding...you can't hold a preschooler's attention for a full hour and there's 19 of them so who would want to!). Then yesterday after I picked her up from day care, we went back for Day 2. She clued in a little more yesterday and I think enjoyed it more. Her activities were Science/Sensory, Music, and - you guessed it - playground.

I had previously volunteered to run the games activity. So we have 2 games each day for 3 different groups of kids to play. So that's 8 different games each modified 3 different ways so preschoolers through 6th grade can all play them. It gets a little exhausting, but overall it's been fun. Plus I haven't had to worry about what to cook for dinner!

So while Blythe and I are there, Braden and Ethan have had some bonding time. Sunday they went to Walmart for groceries (the ultimate male bonding experience). Yesterday they played with chalk outside and had a hot dog dinner that they ate on the floor. Fun times!