Jesus Loves The Little Children

For all you church goers, or none church goers, you know the song, "Jesus loves the Children" This was only part of my day. In the morning I went with the team from AL and spent sometime at a daycare. We sang songs, and handed out snacks. There were a few "lap throws" left over, which we used as a craft. Half of the kids made lap throws while the others finished their pillow cases they designed. I helped a little girl named Summer, she wanted to give the blanket she made to her baby nephew. But her brother was making his blanket for the same purpose. She began to get frazzeled and wanted to have a new design. Soon she spotted a pretty purpke design and wanted to have it. This was the only purple on left and three other girls wanted it. Ohhhhh noo!! Summer checked with all the adults to see if she could take Mr. Purple lap throw. But sadly one of the three who wanted it had already claimed it. Summer had trouble understanding why the girl just couldn't give it up so Summer could have it instead. In the end Summer stayed with her first blanket, and decided to find someone else in her family to give it too. This blog worthy event made me think two things. 1) Wow, I learned to have patience with her. 2) We don't always get what we want. Before this happened we played a game called, "The Trash Can" Literally there was a trash can, and it had frisbees and footballs, baseballs, everything! One team was out field and the other was at home (Like baseball bases) The people at home base grabbed a ball and threw it! The opposite team ran to get the fallen obkects and get them into the can. Once we held an object you froze. Mean while a "runner"runs around the bases getting points. I had no idea what I was doing, and my shoes were wet the whole day from running in wet grass from the morning dew. It was fun though, it was neat to see the kids be so friendly and have some of the day care staff play with us.
In the afternoon I was dropped off at Birdtown Rec (no birds involed inn this project) by my dear Alabamain friends. Everyone was eating lunch and just came back from swimming. These people sure do swim alot up here. After lunch the kids traveled into the gym and we played "Steal the BACON!!" You were given a number (1-18, and there are two teams) and once your number was called, you and the person from the other team ran to the middle and tried to steal the bacon before getting tagged. I was number 9, how I DREADED being called to run. hahah but this is just the Lords way of getting me out there. I discovered I love using the hot glue gun. Lets just say crafts was fun today :) Now I'm back in my Quad, roomates are napping. Dinner is soon, hoping it is Spaghetti, or something yummy! :)