Calvin - part of inaugural Waterloo Christian Regents FIRST FOOTBALL TEAM EVER

Calvin is in 10th grade and he's part of the football team.  That's a crazy statement....because Waterloo Christian School has been working on getting a football program up and running for a couple years now.  The dream came true at the start of year 2023-2024.  WCS Regents is playing 8-man football and had their first game 8-25-2023 vs Springville Orioles.  They lost but their team scored two touchdowns and played great defense the first 3/4 of the game. Everyone was so proud of them!!!  Calvin is thrilled to be a part of it, even though it is very, very hard.  He's especially enjoying weight lifting, and this mama is excited for the character building that being part of a sports team can bring.

Calvin is 79

Calvin's kindergarten celebration

Calvin has finished up kindergarten!!  Miss Smits was a wonderful teacher.  As I watched the slideshow of all the activities the kids did throughout the year I was amazed how many activities they did and places they went.  Calvin has become a very neat writer, can read lots of things, and really loves learning.

Miss Smits commented on Calvin and said he always greeted her with "Hi Miss Smits!" or "Good Morning Miss Smits!" and often responded to her orders by saying, "Yes, Miss Smits!"

Calvin's last day of kindergarten

 

2014 Patriotic Program at WCS

Violet - 2nd grade
Calvin - kindergarten

Another year has passed and another Patriotic Program is over.  They performed once on Thurs, May 15 for the grandparents, and another on Friday night, May 16.  The program was done well! 


Most memorable:
- Sunday School Spectacular - a conglomeration of tons of classic SS songs
- Selah's "Jesus Loves Me" solo
- Vanessa clapping and singing along to "If you're happy and you know it clap your hands!"
- Eli eating fruit snacks during the performance and spitting them out on his drawing paper and playing with it, laughing at the slimy fruit snack.

Humpty Dumpty

I was asked by Calvin's teacher, Miss Smits, if I would be willing to participate in the kindergarten classes' nursery rhyme party on Tues Dec 17th. Sure! I said.  I asked Kris Klunder if she would be willing to watch Vanessa and Eli and she was happy to do so.  She asked me to dress up as humpty dumpty.
Ok. Humpty Dumpty?  If I was pregnant, maybe.  But no.  I was really stuck on ideas.  I asked Molly if she knew of any ideas (she is so creative!) and she suggested a cardboard cut out.  Perfect!  I can do cardboard.  I googled some images and ran across this one which gave me inspiration on what to do for humpty dumpty.  The picture gave me the shape and the masking tape bricks on a wall idea.  Love it!  Dave was picturing me doing some 3D cardboard egg shaped inserts for a sheet body cover-up, I was in no way thinking that technical.  ha!

inspiration pic I found on google images search

Now that I see the pics side by side it looks like a duplicate!  I dug up some paint from leftover cans in the basement.  I used "brick red" from our red fireplace, blue from Dave's office wall, and green from Dave's office accent color I used a couple years ago.

A little hot glue to secure everything together and I was good to go.  I made this project the NIGHT BEFORE his party so it was really late and I was running out of steam making humpty's legs and feet so I stuck straight cardboard things on the brick wall and put socks on the cardboard that look like shoes.  Good enough.

It was a hit and served as a super cute photo prop for all the kids to get their pics taken in it for their nursery rhyme party the next day.  I helped the kids with creating a humpty dumpty of their own, then played bingo with each of Calvin's classmates.  It was nice to get to know them all and learn their names.  

Calvin told me his favorite part of the day was me being at school with him. :)

WCS Christmas Program 2013

I'm finally catching up on writing about some things going on with our family.  I have an hour of a window of time when my older 3 are with Dave at AWANA.  I didn't go because I didn't want to take Eli out and it was "gym and pizza" night - not really necessary for me, the secretary, to sit by a table and do nothing.  So I am using this hour to catch up on blogging.  My memory of these events has faded quite a bit and I've forgotten details I wanted to capture, but either way, I'm writing about it now and I'll record whatever I remember.

This year's program involved Violet and Calvin, since they are both in school full time at WCS.  Violet is in 2nd grade, Calvin in Kindergarten.  The program the school chose to perform is The First Leon (Noel spelled backwards) about a boy named Leon.  I don't remember the exact story line but the performance was one of the best I've seen yet, it is the third one I've seen the school has put on.  The music seemed more contemporary, there were real funny moments, and the kids seemed to enjoy performing.  Violet was a shepherd gal and Calvin was a sheep. 

Rachel and my mom were also able to come see it too!

Calvin

Violet

 

Selah, Violet and Alexis