Vacation Bible School

What a week we've had! Jessalyn and I both participated in Vacation Bible School. She was in one of the three Pre-K groups, and my friend Alison and I were the Pre-K craft teachers. Lee was on the tail end of a viral infection, but was not contagious, so he was able to stay in the nursery. It was a fun, albeit exhausting, experience. Jessalyn had a great time and loved that I was her teacher. The boys and girls were separated into different groups, so she didn't get to hang out with her best buds, Noah and Jeremiah, very much. We had a little bit of drama at the beginning of the week: Jeremiah told Jessalyn that he was not going to marry her. She was crushed. During this past school year, Jessalyn and Jeremiah sat next to each other in their preschool class and, on most days, were determined to get married. However, this became null and void on the days that she and Noah (her best friend since she was two) were to be married. So, she was a bit on the sulky side on Tuesday. On Wednesday she got mad at Noah for something he did or didn't do, so she announced that she wasn't his friend anymore. After realizing that that was not very nice and that she hurt his feelings, she apologized, gave him a very big and sincere hug, and told Noah that she would marry him. Connor, Noah's 2.5-year-old little brother said, "I wanna marry you, too." Jessalyn, quite apologetically, told him, "I can't marry you, Connor, because I'm taller than you." On a side note, Eli, one of Jessalyn's preschool classmates, told me during one of our craft classes that Jessalyn was his girlfriend (and, when I relayed this bit of info to her, she smiled and happily stated that she guessed she would marry Eli, then!). All of this marrying/girlfriend business reminds me of a story that one of Jessalyn's AWANA leaders told me earlier in the year: as Jessalyn was surrounded by three boys, each of them tugging on her, she told them, woefully, "No, no, I can only marry one!"

Noah & Jessalyn

Noah, Jessalyn & Connor