English Camp

I was very thankful this year to be able to host an English Camp at our house this week. We had two classes- the little boys and the second graders! We played games, learned about what makes a noun, verb and adjective and had lots of fun!

Two of my favorite quotes from the Camp:

Miriam- "Is God a verb or a noun?" I told her He was both. And the more I think about it the more I am amazed we have a God who IS and who ACTS.
Girl from the camp- We were talking about the book the Princess and the Frog. I asked everyone if they had ever kissed a frog . One little girl said "I have never kissed one, but I have eaten one!"


My dear friend Karen made teaching the boys a breeze! Also special thanks to the Bowman family who supplied great learning games for the whole week.

The last day we had a party. Including: gingerbread cookies, seaweed crackers, yogurt drinks, fish crackers, bananas and more!

Most of the kids had never played with water balloons before. It was a huge hit!

Temperatures were in the 100s all week! We were HOT HOT HOT.

Salome turned 18 months a few weeks ago. Seriously love this girl!

Funny things my kids say...

Miriam

What this girl does not lack is confidence! She says so many things that are funny- but sadly I do not write them all down! Her latest funny one is this:

"Mommy I am bi-bingo"
What? I said
"Oh, I mean bi-lingo"
OH! You mean bilingual
"Is that what it is called?"

Our joke now with her is that she is bi-bingo. And if you knew Miriam as a little baby/girl she could not stand anyone laughing at her or about her. This is slowly changing and she is actually able to laugh about being bi-bingo.

Asa

This dude was made to joke. In fact he seems to be the happiest making people laugh. Teaching him to read has been about 360 degrees different than teaching Miriam to read. I am now trying to make it more *fun*. We will see if it works...in the meantime here is a story from last week.

H and AT put that together and you get what?
Asa- blank stare
Okay, let's try again H and AT
Asa- Africa

I just about lost it. He I think, was more trying to make his very focused Mom laugh. It worked- the stinker!

Salome

This girl loves and I mean loves to communicate! Chinese, English and sign language she will use it all to make her point! She loves ice cream so much Miriam taught her a sign for ice cream. The other night I put her in her seat for dinner and she looks straight at me and does the ice cream sign. Then all the way through dinner she made sure she let us know this was all she wanted to eat!

I also have been teaching her the words and signs for animals. We got to lion and I just said ROAR and did not do a sign. Well, she can not really roar she more just hacks- sounds identical to a local Chinese person hacking up a cough! So, we will be outside and she will just start this hack! When she sees really big dogs she I guess thinks they are lions and starts the hack! Also when she wants to go outside and see dogs she will give me her shoes and start hacking. We are in the process to helping her roar and not hack....

Random Funny

At a restaurant this past weekend. The server lady greeted us and then said "Please go away". Pretty sure she meant "Please follow me" . I was with my Chinese friend and she thought it funnier than me!