Breakfast Food Playland

We let the kids play in the play area at the mall. It was full of squishy breakfast themed play items.

Quick Tatted Heart

The West Michigan Lace Group is having their motif exchange tonight. I remembered partway through my sock project, so I sat down on Friday to try and design something. This is what I came up with....
(I'm not very happy with the top of the heart. I may alter it a little and make the chains coming from the outside of the heart to the inside longer and join them to the chains with the joined rings in the center)



Anyway, the pattern:











R 12-12 RW
Ch 12 RW
R 12-12 RW
Ch 12 RW
R 12-12 RW
Ch 12 RW
R 12-12 RW
Ch 12-12 RW
R 12+(to previous ring) 12 RW
Ch 12 RW
R 12-12 RW
Ch 12 Rw
R 12-12 RW
Ch 6-6 RW
R 12-12 Rw
Ch 6+(to previous chain) 6 RW
R 12-12 RW
Ch 12 RW
R 12-12 RW
Ch 12 RW
R 12-12 RW
Ch 12+(to chain on opposite side of heart) 12 Rw
R 12+(to previous ring) 12 RW
Ch 12 RW
R 12-12 RW
Ch 12 RW
R 12-12 RW
Ch 12 RW
R 12-12 RW
Ch 9-9+(to top of last ring made)28+(to next ring, etc)24+26+18+20+(to bottom ring)
20+18+26+24+28+9+(to chain) 9
Join to base of first ring.
Tie & Cut

Tatted Cross

I made my traditional graduation gift for our church's only senior, a tatted cross bookmark.

William's First Cookie

Dan was eating chocolate covered cookies and held one out to William. Will grabbed it and shoved it in his mouth.

Orange Drink Anyone?

Emily wanted some orange drink, so I poured her a cup. Later I went into the room they were in, and I saw that Will had an orange wet spot on his shirt. I asked Emily if she had given William her juice. She said, Uh huh"!





His pants were completely wet, too!


















Here is the empty cup. Thankfully, it wasn't totally full!

When Your Church Meets in a Multipurpose Building

...there can be drawbacks and benefits. Like in the winter, the back section was very cold and the front was warm. Now that it is warm outside, the back section was hot and the front section was cool!

Last week, Sarah pointed out that at the end of the playing field was a "pool thing" laying on the floor. Well, it turned out that it was an inflatable obstacle course. After church, the kids had a ball playing on it, helped out by the teens.

Here's Sarah going through.

Climbing up!

Sliding down!
























Emily's turn!
























Sliding down with Steve. I wasn't sure if Emily would like the big hill, but she loved it!


















At the beginning, the teens just carried Emily up because she was too short to climb up the wall. I suggested they help her "climb".













"Big Emily" is helping Emily climb the wall.























Dan went through with Emily.
















































Getting a hand on the climbing wall.
























Dan sliding down.

























Emily sliding down to Dan.














I took a video of the girls going through to show how much fun they had! I didn't think about it, but I shot the video sideways! I especially love the part right after "Big Emily" puts Emily onto the floor.

May 31st

William has been having a hard time napping lately. I put him in the swing to see if that would help. It did!. . .

I snapped some pictures of Will showing off his sitting skills later that day.

Doesn't he looked happy about being able to sit by himself?