The One about the Blanket Folding

We make the boys fold the blankets on their beds in the morning as one of their "jobs." They don't sleep under comforters, but occasionally use sheets and have a whole slew of little rags and small blankets they cuddle with. So this morning I walked in to check that he had done his job and found this on Caleb's bed...

The hilarious thing was this evening I said to Brant "You have to look and see what Caleb did this morning - check out my camera." To which he replied "Oh, you saw the picture I took?" I was really confused until I clicked back through the pictures and we realized Brant took almost the exact same picture YESTERDAY morning:

We have a budding artist on our hands. Either that or a wise crack. :) But aren't you glad that both of us are aware enough to document his creations?

And this was for the kindergarten class...

Today at our national church the kids learned about Naaman the Leper during Sunday school. One very eager, new young teacher taught the class and I'm sure wanted to show off the fact that she had a laptop and could use it for ministry. :)
So the lesson included REAL pictures of people suffering from leprosy and a very vivid description of how people suffer and die from the disease. Memories of the Christmas lesson of Herod killing all the babies in Bethlehem came to mind. I think the kids will be scarred for life. Caleb was terrified.
Sometimes I wonder what memories my children will have of growing up here...

Last beach trip of the summer...

New to us beach... last term we went to the same beach the entire 3 years we were here. Since January we've been to FOUR different beaches... so that either means we're finally getting comfortable enough with life here that we're ready to branch out or... I'm not sure what it means. :) 

It was cool and overcast, but still a really fun day with two other families. 

The boat ride is a favorite... 

Smaller beach, but in a cove with no waves and spectacular snorkeling. I think we saw the whole cast of "Finding Nemo" in the reef.

Caleb's pool snorkeling practice is paying off.... he spent most of the time snorkeling in the shallow part, but Brant did take him to the edge of the reef for a bit.

No pics, but Elijah "graduated" to snorkeling without a life jacket. He had a flotation device he held on to most of the time, but he was able to dive under to see better and even went down to the ocean floor to pick up a brilliant blue starfish.

Ezra and his rocks...

Before we left Brant stopped at a shop someone had told us about and picked up some fresh fish... six bucks for all of this...

And this was after grilling them up the next night... So. yum.