The Pannells

Vacation Bible School 2011

Vacation Bible School ended last night-it has been a great week! This year's theme was Shake It Up Cafe and the children really seemed to enjoy learning about the festivals and celebrations of the Old Testament. Mom and I taught one of the Kindergarten classes. Jason portrayed Jesus two nights during the story time and John went to the Two Year Old class those nights (a sight to behold, I'm sure.) He did make the precious craft below, plus a few other neat keepsakes!

Our classroom door

All the children singing last night at the performance before supper. They did a great job and the music and motions were precious!

Sweet handprints!

Nine Months

Sweet E. turned nine months old a couple of weeks ago and is soooooo much fun! She is crawling everywhere, beginning to pull up and talks (babbles) a lot! She still eats well, just not much at one time like we were used to with John. She is going to sleep much easier than she did the past few months (teething has been the main culprit.) Speaking of, she has her top two and bottom two teeth, and just today we saw one more on the bottom coming through. She had her 9 month check up this week and she weighs 19 lbs. and is 28.75 inches. Her giggles are contagious and she LOVES her crazy big brother...so much fun!

ISR Lessons

John began ISR (Infant Swimming Resource) lessons two weeks ago. As I've mentioned before, he is fearless in and around the water. He has done great, and would love to stay longer each day after his lesson is over! His sweet teacher, Mrs. Regina, is wonderful. He even had the opportunity to work with Mr. Chuck who was here last weekend to re-certify his teacher. He will probably have 2-3 more weeks of lessons; so far he can swim underwater to a target from various angles and begins incorporating floating next week. We are so proud of him!

Summer Fun!

We are enjoying our summer SO much! John and Elizabeth are really starting to play together and enjoy each other. Here are a few highlights of lately...

Sweet brother and sister!

We found this one day after John had been playing...so proud! Can we say future mathematician like his daddy?!

Or maybe a future artist???

It has begun...two successes and a whole lot of sitting. We have read this book a hojillion times.

Sweet Ellie Behm's 2nd birthday party...

Swinging with the birthday girl!

Having fun is hard work!

Jumping, Teething and Giggles-OH MY!

Elizabeth LOVES her Jump-A-Roo borrowed from Sarah and the Johnny Jump Up as well-she will stay in both for forever! John has especially enjoyed showing her all of the cool toys on the jumper!