Advent Activities- Two Lo's and a Tan: Advent 2014! Day 17 & 18

Day 17 was a singing day and Henry and his class went on their third trip to the Pacific Gardens senior citizens center to sing Christmas carols and share the Christmas spirit. They sang many of the same songs from the Christmas musical and threw in some more traditional Christmas tunes. Then, in the evening time during our Wednesday Dotahoey get-together, Henry selected to sing some more Christmas carols with everyone there. After dinner, we went to Youtube and found a few Christmas songs with cute animations and lyrics and streamed them onto the TV via Google's chromecast for everyone to sing along. Jensen was so excited to sing and dance to the songs on screen that he kept asking for more. Afterwards, Henry did a reprisal of his performance at the musical the Friday before. Afterwards, Henry said, "I liked singing the song from my play and the computer. There was also a group of songs called "pink fong" that was funny!"

The devotion for the day was from Matthew 11:2-10 and Henry summarized it as "We are dead in our sins but all we have to do is believe!" Henry also decided to add custom doodles for the different words in his devotion flags, something he had started doing recently. The words dead was laid on its side and surrounded by scenes of Jesus' crucifixion, burial, and rising.

Day 18 was a rest day as we came back a bit late from Tae Kwon Do class and dinner. But that didn't stop Henry from adding a new activity which he had started the previous day, "Create your own board game!" The previous day, Henry had made a board game, complete with a game board, game pieces, movement selectors, questions on cards and a game box to store it. The next day, Henry adapted one of his current favorite games from school, "war," to domino pieces he got from Mrs. Young as a Christmas gift. Henry remembered that "The games were fun to make and creative."

The verses from Psalm 20 reminds us that "God answers our prayers even if we don't feel like it."