unfortunately, it seems like many churches don't even do a vbs anymore. some of the smaller churches do a 3 day one. but thankfully ward church still puts on a KILLER vbs. so i signed hayden up and drove him over on monday morning.
hayden is not a shy kid by any means. he has no problem stepping into new situations with new people. he certainly doesn't get that from me! he didn't have any reservations about it...he simply wanted to know what they would be doing.
when we pulled into the parking lot on monday morning, hayden suddenly got VERY excited when he saw all of the bouncers set up outside. talan also was very excited and wouldn't stop saying "bouncy!" luckily i was able to convince him that the bouncers were only for the "big kids" and the rest of the week he would tell me "bouncy. big kids." i still have no idea how we made it a whole week without him freaking out that he didn't get to go on them!
we walked in to the church on monday and it was INSANE. i later heard that there were around 1143 kids that had PRE-registered. and i believe they said there was usually an average of around 1150 kids every day!!! i walked hayden to his class and he sat right down ready to get to the fun with hardly a goodbye to us.
after the second day i was told that they were going to be moving hayden to a different class. the leader at his current table was a teenage boy and they felt with hayden being so overly active and having some hard times calming down and sitting in big group that it would be best for him to be with an adult. i was told that hayden was one of the sweetest boys and was always giving hugs and making playdough cookies for them and they just wanted him to feel comfortable.
so on wednesday morning i dropped him off to his new class and he was once again ready to get right back into it. i talked to the girl again and asked for some specifics on what they saw in hayden as he is going in to the u of m for testing in just a few weeks. i was told that in the large group hayden would get bored and had a hard time sitting and paying attention. he was even starting to crawl under the pews. they also talked about how active he is and that at one point he said he wanted to just be by himself as he felt he was bugging the other children. nobody really knew why he said that as they didn't see him bugging other kids and none of the other kids said anything.
when i asked hayden about it he didn't really know why he said it either. i'm thinking it may have been a way for him to just get out of the large group and maybe do something he was more interested in.
it was really helpful to have this info as we will pass it along to the dr.'s at the u of m so they know some of what we are dealing with in hayden.
but i am so thankful for all of the volunteers at vbs. they would ask him at least once a day if he just wanted to go take a walk around the church, which he would tell me all about and really LOVED it. he was even able to tell us a bit about the bible story he learned about each day.
he had a great time every single day and was always so excited to show the different robot crafts that he had made.
on thursday evening they had the family program where they had all sorts of robots set up (the theme was gadget's garage in which gadget was the robot mascot) and then we all headed to the sanctuary. hayden and the rest of the preschool-1st graders got up on stage and sang a couple of songs in which hayden seemed to know most of them. he looked so proud and happy to be up on stage.
after all of the singing, uncle jerry came out. uncle jerry was doing vbs when i attended and it was crazy to see him still up on stage and the kids still loving it! hayden would always come home and talk about how silly his chicken puppet was.
he headed back for one more day on friday and has said that he is looking forward to going back again next year.
ward really does such a great job with their vbs. all of the volunteers and the work they do is just amazing! we are so grateful we were able to be a part of it this year and plan on going back each year from here on out.
we stood here watching these robots for a REALLY long time and i still have no idea what the point was. but both of the boys LOVED it:
waiting in line to control the robot. it was a long wait and he was pretty patient:
finally hayden got the controls:
i think this was hayden's favorite robot. a lego robot that set up and knocked down domino's. hayden was asking this kid all sorts of questions about it:
getting ready to sing. oh how hayden loves to be up on a stage:
yes, this really is hayden shushing the kid next to him (a kid we actually knew from our old church...i'm hoping his parents didn't see!):
hayden was so proud he gave a double thumbs up:
gizmo the robot:
both seemed thrilled by this production:
uncle jerry:
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