Eliana and Karys both received their teacher assignments in the mail today for the 2010-2011 school year.

Carmi and I requested for Karys to have the same teacher that Eliana had in kindergarten. This particular teacher was absolutely wonderful and Eliana learned a lot in her first year of school.

So I was pretty stoked to look at the postcard and see that our request was granted.

What’s cool is that we traveled to China to bring Karys home, like, the week after Eliana started kindergarten. This teacher was a part of that whole process and now she gets Karys in her class.

I walked up to Eliana’s Vacation Bible School class tonight while they were outside enjoying some recreational activities.

When Eliana saw me, she bounded over and started fussing about a boy in her class who she did not know.

She pointed the guy out. He was kinda small. Definitely smaller than her.

She went on and on and on about how he did this and said that and she was about ready to “clean his clock”.

“Honey… don’t sit with the boys! Go and hang out with the girls!”

“But he keeps following me!”

Just between you and me, I’m sure it wasn’t anything THAT serious.

But she was obviously quite aggravated.

“Dad… he told me that he broke a girl’s bone!”, she said all wide-eyed.

And with that, she puffed up like a blowfish.

“He might do that to some weak girl. But he won’t do that to a strong girl like me!”

8 years ago, I was walking around China with Eliana strapped to my chest in a carrier.

8 years later, Eliana is walking around with Sagwa strapped to HER chest in the same carrier.

Poor Sagwa.

Vacation Bible School started at our church tonight.

We usually offer VBS earlier in the summer but tried it later for a couple of reasons:

Firstly, no other churches are having VBS this week and secondly, most families are back from vacation.

The reasoning must have worked because attendance was up almost 30% over opening night last year.

And the Henderson chaplets seemed to enjoy themselves.

Two guesses what we did today and the first guess doesn’t count.

Tax-free weekend, baby!

This isn’t everything the kiddos will need but we were able to mark off a big chunk of items from their school supply lists.

We shopped at Target because I needed some help from Starbucks to get me through the experience.

The crowd really wasn’t bad at all but I shudder to think what it was like at Wally World.

For the 2nd summer in a row, Eliana participated in a Children’s Choir Camp which started on Monday and culminated tonight with a concert.

In just 4 days, 140 kids learned and sang an entire musical that they had never heard before.

4 days!

But there wasn’t just singing.

The children also chose an elective which they worked on and incorporated into the production.

There was drama and dancing and puppets and boomwhackers and worship banners and sign language and handbells.

Eliana chose worship banners.

She stood right up in front of a huge sanctuary filled with people and didn’t look like she wanted to climb under the nearest rock.

I was so proud of her.

Now… next year she wants to try drama.

Zane made it back safely from church camp yesterday.

Carmi and I couldn’t wait to see him after a week.

And I think the girls - especially Eliana - were secretly ready for him to come back too.

When I asked Eliana at lunch if she missed Zane, she shrugged and said, “A little”.

But she was stuck to him like white on rice from the time we arrived home around 4:00 pm until they went to bed.

And lemme tell ya… he MUST have enjoyed himself because h-e t-a-l-k-e-d m-y e-a-r-s o-f-f telling me all about the stuff they did.

These are just a couple of photos that one of the adult leaders took.

And I pilfered these from Facebook. Hee.

Hopefully I can get more a little later.

The group will give a report on Wednesday night so we’re looking forward to that.