Sunday, October 24, 2010

ROCKYOURFACEOFF2010

This weekend was our annual fall youth retreat, ROCKYOURFACEOFF. Our church teamed up with Covenant Presbyterian Church in St. Louis for a weekend that rocked our faces off. We had 16 middle and high school students and five adults come from our church. With all the volunteers and kids from both churches, our group was about 75. It was a fun retreat with silly games, skits about croquet, a costume dance party, lots of candy and an epic game of war ball. But it was also a wonderful time for our kids to hear about God's love for them and how it transforms our lives. We had a lot of fun bonding with the kids who came.


Our gang

The whole group: Grace Presbyterian Church and Covenant Presbyterian Church

field games: "predators" had to drag their victims across a line in the field

getting ready for the costume party

Zane and me at the costume party

Rachel, one of the leaders from Covenant and me. We told everyone we were twins separated at birthday.


Miranda stayed with our friends Dan and Ruthann. She had a great time and was well loved while we were gone.

Monday, October 11, 2010

Letters!

Miranda has been learning her letters, thanks to a little video from the library called Letter Factory. In this dvd, a little frog goes through the factory learning the sound that each letter makes. She loves this video and asks to watch her "deedee" (DVD) a lot. Now, she recognizes letters on our t-shirts or in her books. She will point them out and make their sounds.

Monday, October 4, 2010

Our Little Dancer

Miranda loves to dance. Here is a little montage of some of her best dance moves. I'm pretty sure of all the videos we have posted of her so far, this will probably be the one she will hate us for when she's 14. But it's so worth it!

Sleepy Miranda

This is a funny conversation I had with Miranda at lunch today.

Friday, October 1, 2010

Miranda Says

Miranda talks a lot. I mean a lot, and everyday I can understand more and more of what she says. She is still not quite clear enough for others to understand most of what she says, but it won't take long before that happens. She is already saying funny things too. She doesn't know they are funny. But she regularly cracks me and Zane up. Here are a few funny things she has said recently.

On Tuesday, I was keeping my friend's 5-month-old son for the day. When he arrived, I put him in our exersaucer. Miranda almost burst with the double excitement of seeing her old exersaucer and having a baby visit us. One of the toys on our exersaucer is a ball that has two frogs in it and spins around. In the midst of Miranda's hyper-excitement, she got right in Nathan's face, pointed to this toy and said with much enthusiasm, "it's a ball!!!!" Ok, so it was more like "issa ball!!!!" But still, that is her first sentence, teaching baby Nathan about her exersaucer. She's a sweet girl.

Also, on Wednesday night, I picked her up from the nursery at church after youth group. The man in charge of nursery that night asked if she could say "bed." I told him that she could. And he said that for the last half an hour, she had been wandering around the nursery saying "bed? bed? bed?...."