1st day of VBS

Tanner was so excited to go to VBS today. I realized , while driving him to VBS, that his time in VBS is almost the same time period that he will be in Kindergarten. He will be an early bird in K (8am-12noon) and his time in this VBS is 9-12noon. What a great way to prepare him for K. I got a nice little surprise when I dropped him off at VBS this morning. He had the same VBS church group as last year. I didn't know it in advance because the church group changed church buildings. This is such a great church group and they do a great job with Tanner.
This surprise started when I brought him into the church this morning; a lady took Tanner by his hand and told him, " remember me from last summer, Tanner? I'm Miss Karen." She wasn't familiar to me and I was wondering why she said that to him. I actually thought maybe she just assumed that he had been there last year. After I was shown the classroom that I will need to pick Tanner up from, I ran into one of the head ladies and then realized this is the same great group as last year. I saw the pastor and he remember me too, well he remembered Tanner first and nobody forgets Tanner. Tanner has matured so much over the last year. VBS noticed this change too and put Tanner in with the soon-to-be first graders instead of the-soon-to K's. He did such a great job today.
After VBS, Tanner and I went to a local water park while Cole stayed home with the sitter. We had so much fun going down the slides and playing in the water. I'm glad I got to see him having some water time too, as it made me realize that he needs more swim lessons. I was going to pass on giving him lessons. Now I've signed both boys up for lessons, due to start next week.