Monday ...VBS (Vacation Bible School) starts for all 4 boys ... 5 days from 9:30 am to 12:30 pm!
The theme "Rocky Railways" is showing everywhere.
We signed in and the boys find which group they are in.
It was Sarah's day off from work and she picked all 4 up. One of her friend's son is in the same group as William and they were invited to Sarah's friends' back yard so the boys could get to know each a little better. Oh, what a back yard that must be.
Look at this VIDEO (1:20 minutes)
Sarah had planned for the two older boys to cook dinner using the "raddish kids" kit. But ... the day turned out a bit differently. The boys wanted to have a lemonade stand to make money. The boy Reese helped too.
William and Caleb made the raddish kid dessert which were Key Lime Tartletts and ...
... Reese and the twins made the sign for the lemonade stand.
Ready for customers.
Neighbors stopped by and a lot of fun was had. The group had decided that the lemonade was free but a donation was taken for the VBS (Vacation Bible) because the major teaching was about service projects.
There even seemed to be some tiny toads for sale. (???)
Most of the photos are from Sarah and this was one from her of her kitchen. Sarah had volunteered to pick William up from the VBS, keep him and in exchange had given us a shopping list for the grocery store to be back before 5 pm for dinner preparations. No problem. I was happy to help out to change the look of that kitchen too.
The boys were really too tired to do the main raddish kids recipe too. Sarah did it. It was very nice. The boys then served their dessert. The key lime tarts were really very good.
But the day was not over yet. Since Caleb had had a sleepover in our house a few days ago Colin was promised one too. Right after dinner we left and took him with us. It really was his first without any of his siblings.
I think it was a great success. Colin was very good, sweet and well behaved. William was very caring. He read him a bed time story ...
... and even cuddled with him a little.
Colin fell asleep quickly and William asked whether we could play a bit "Five crowns". So that he could practice we agreed to play up to the 8-card round. He was very pleased that he had less bad points than Papa.
Tuesday
Colin's sleepover went very well. Of course he was awake at 6 am as always and that was the reason why I discouraged William having him in his room. We let William sleep as long as possible. He doesn't fall asleep easily in the evenings.
After they had breakfast we had a little more time and William played 'a little kids game' with him very willingly and patiently.
I had received a text from Sarah early. She sent me a screenshot she had taken of an email. She had informed the organizer of the VBS about the boy's lemonade stand and that they had made $58. I think it is all very good.
When I picked William up at 12:30 pm I took a photo of the collection box.
William and I went straight home. It was already 1 pm and lunch time. He needed a little personal time. Reading books, playing on his iPad, calling his Dad and his Mommy.
I took a little time to look at the mail I received the day before. It had just layed there on the table, sigh.
And this is only half of it. It will be fun. Even James chimed in and told me to do something a bit more interesting with it (???). Well, I have an idea. Will go to the fabric store tomorrow, ha-ha.
He is already very good, just not lucky with the cards.
Sarah deserves a medal!
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