Water Day, Saturday

Cora and Violet both really enjoyed Vacation Bible School this year, and have been having a great time with the music CD the past few days. They sing and dance, trying to remember the hand motions they learned.

Cora is now in the group of 1st through 4th graders, and they do cool things like little science experiments to illustrate the spiritual points. I think she learned a lot, and she has a pretty good command of the five short Bible memory verses the children were taught.

Violet also did great. It was her first time away from me for over three hours a day all week, and on Friday she was especially happy to see me, with lots of hugs.

I was very glad she had three friends in her little group, and her teacher was Shannon, our neighborhood friend. Shannon said she answered all the questions well and was very funny and chatty.

On Friday, after VBS the church had a family picnic and water play day, with the little pools, big slip-n-slide and giant inflatable slide.

Here's Violet with some of the girls from her group. Cora and Violet were excited about water day all week, since Cora remembers it well from previous years.

 On Saturday, we were around the house most of the day. Cora and Vi played, and Cora gave Violet a "keyboard lesson."

Cora has shown a renewed interest in her keyboard in recent weeks, really since we went to Ave and Johnny's recital. She's been using her old books to practice again, wearing a set of headphones so we don't hear her. She says she will hold a recital, and doesn't want us to know what she's playing.

 Cora also helped Stace put up house numbers above our garage; one of those niggling projects that's been hanging about for months. Then we all went to the pool.

On Saturday night we toasted some marshmallows and Stace and Cora set up the tent in the grass. Cora slept like a champ; Violet ended up inside in her crib around 10:45 p.m.