Tuesday, August 14, 2007

VBS and other things


We had our first VBS (Vacation Bible School) at Hiawatha Church last week. It was really fun. Here's Molly on the stage with the cute VBS characters and set. :) The program was called "Tumbleweed Gulch", and it was a western theme.

Molly has a good friend name Calvin at church, and he was in her VBS class. On Monday when we where getting ready to go, I told Molly to get her shoes on. I told her she could wear her gold flip flops.
Molly: These?
Emily: Yes, those.
Molly: Do you think Calvin will like these?
Emily: I think so.
Molly: Well, if he doesn't like them, I will wear something different.

Isn't that cute? Molly has also given Calvin her craft project from Kid's Church almost every week for the last month, saying, "Calvin, I made this for YOU!" I'll have to try to get a photo of them together sometime.



Molly got to open a few birthday gifts early when Grandma and Grandpa Loeschke came to visit this past weekend. Thanks for the cool stuff! Thanks to Great Grandma Ruth for the fun card games, too!

Molly, Molly's Grandpa, and I were playing one of the card games (an animal matching game) for the first time. Molly was lucky enough to have the the right cards to win on her very first turn, before the rest of us even got a turn. We were laughing about that when Molly said, "Don't worry Grandpa, you'll get the hang of it eventually." :)



We went with some friends to Como Zoo yesterday. It was free Carousel Day! Fun!


Molly and Alex were having fun art time together last night. :)

Alex likes to lock himself in our front coat closet. It has one of those push button locks on the knob. Thankfully, I can pop the lock out with a wire from the outside. I think lately he's been doing it on purpose, though. This morning, he got a whole package of dried bananas (which he loves), ran to the coat closet, and locked himself inside.
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Monday, August 6, 2007

Swimming Fun - the take down


Molly and Alex have been wrestling more lately. Alex can really hold his own. They both think it is really funny.
Look at the look on Alex's face. He's ready to pounce. A take-down is coming. :) Check it out.


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Swimming Fun - Alex


Alex had a blast swimming today.

Here's the crazy stunt man. He was standing, and then he started spinning around a few times and then just jumped/dove right down into the water. He did this over and over. :)


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Swimming Fun - Molly

Molly and Alex LOVE swimming. We have a large kiddie pool on our deck, and they have so much fun in it. Here are some great shots of Molly today. :)


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Wednesday, August 1, 2007

Safe

Hi. We are safe and were not involved in the bridge collapse today in Minneapolis, though I did drive over that bridge twice earlier today with the kids. Scary! Please pray for everyone involved in this horrible event.
Emily