Sunday School Fun

Now that Julia is in second grade, she has been moved into the older class of Sunday School, so she and Madeleine are no longer in the same classroom together.  I was, at first, a bit worried that Julia would be unhappy about being separated from her sister, stuck in a classroom of older kids, doing less arts and crafts and more discussions of the Bible. 

It turns out my fear was unfounded.

JULIA: (after Sunday school today) Mom!  Our teacher is REALLY nice!  He looks like Ringo Starr!

OMG.  A former Beatle look-alike is teaching her class??  Sunday School is about to get WAY hip, people!

Madeleine has done just fine without her big sister in the classroom as well, and has been happily creating her art projects about Genesis:

SINMADELEINE.  Awesome.  It's like I can hear the snake trying to tempt Madeleine just as he did Adam and Eve.  "Sin, Madeleine!  Sssssssin!"

In other artwork news, the girls got busy coloring in their Halloween posters from the grocery store.  Every year, any kid who colors one of these posters gets a free mini-pumpkin and gets his or her artwork on display throughout the Halloween season.  It's a pretty exciting reward for doing an activity that children ALREADY do for pleasure.

Julia went the more traditional route, coloring in the pre-made designs with lots of Halloweeny colors:

Madeleine went for a more creative interpretation, even drawing her own ghoul-like figurine off in the shadows:

I enjoy her stark contract of mostly black-and-white with the bloody, slimy mess that is Dracula's face.  The blue cat is pretty creepy-cool too. My only complaint is that she didn't sign the picture with her new nickname: SINMADELEINE.