Keren is One!

(From Angie’s Birthday Update) We had a Bear Birthday Party with some ideas I saw online, and built on. All the kids had to bring a teddy bear to the party, and first they acted out Bible stories with their bears and the other kids had to guess what story it was—Alessia did David and Goliath with her bear, of course she had to be David, so her little teddy was Goliath, ha! There was Baalam’s Ass, Baby Jesus, Baby Moses, etc.
Then all the kids presented their teddies in a teddy contest and won awards for what their teddy did best, ie, softest, most cuddly, tiniest, etc. The awards were made on the spot out of paper plates and stickers with permanent markers. And each teddy got a snack bag, to share with it’s owner of course. Each kid had decorated little paper snack bags with their own teddy art, to make it special. We had cupcakes decorated (by Shali) with gummy bears, and one of Keren’s presents was a little cuddly birthday bear from the Care bears. She really liked her cupcake, and after blowing out the little bear candle, she gladly grabbed and squished it and gobbled it up. Well, we didn’t get many digital pics, but hopefully the film ones will turn out. Here are the ones we do have in digital form, not the best quality but at least you get a glimpse.