First, on Monday, we went to a Mennonite Bakery where the sweet bakery lady (no pun intended) showed a bunch of kids, and I mean a bunch, how to make dough, cinnamon rolls, pretzels and then let them decorate a cake. It was great fun and they got to bring home all of their goodies.
Monday night EG had her very first official sleepover. Her friend M came to stay the night. The big girls did a spa night for them. Bath, nails, hair and we all watched The Princess Diaries.
Tuesday the kids attended their very first music class. A friend of mine is a music teacher and arranged a summer harmony class. There are about 10 kids in the class and they are learning to read music and harmonize. They really seemed to enjoy it! Wouldn't it be cool if my kids were like the Von Trapp family singers?!? Ha, ha!!
After that, a lady from our church, as a ministry, is teaching the kids and myself and another family sign language for the next month or so. She started out with the basics of the ABCs and then went on to teach about a dozen different words.
I stayed in the class as long as I could (EG had a hard time sitting still) and learned some new signs as well. It was kind of fun to watch the kids make the signs. Some were a little hard at first. Boop probably had the most trouble but the teacher was really patient and encouraging. The girls were making short sentences with the words that had learned. Toward the end, EG paid attention long enough to get some of the signs.
It is hard to believe it is the middle of July already. We have been super busy but doing a lot of great stuff. . .
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