VBS for Dylan

Anyone who has known me for at least 5 minutes knows that church is not my thing. This is probably not the place to spout off my views, but bottom line for me is that I respect those who do believe in any God. The logical part of my brain refutes these theories...anyway, enough of that.

I sent Dylan to Vacation Bible School 2 weeks ago (mostly as a form of free, safe daycare...oh, and to keep him engaged of course.) :) This was a weeklong camp, for 3 hours a day. It was at the nicest, largest local Baptist church in the area. There were at least 200 kids there ranging from 4-12 years old. This church is like a mall, it is huge. There were bounce houses, 2 gymnasiums, and outdoor playground, and a huge auditorium with lots of loud live music. He had a BLAST. To top it all off, the theme (other than Jesus) was Rodeo week. There was a petting zoo and pony rides on the last day. I convinced myself that Dylan doesn't listen to me EVER, so there was no way he would retain anything from this 15 hours of fun....well, i was WRONG!

Apparently, they have these creative teaching methods using puppets with dancing and music that helped him memorize EVERYTHING they taught him. It is really cute, but for those of you who know me....you will laugh at the things MY SON is saying randomly on any given day:

"God died, but now he is in the sky and he talks to me. He actually talks to all of us."

"Jesus only wants your money."

While Grayson was crying Dylan laid down next to him and hugged him saying, "spirit in the sky, spirit in the sky."

While playing Yahtzee Dylan informed me that I didn't have to count the score because, "God told him that he won. He just yelled down from the clouds."

"The church lady told me that you have to buy me toys and give me money. God would like that a lot."

Moral of the story is that Dylan DOES listen when you make it fun. I guess I will be getting puppets to help motivate him to listen to me. Maybe a talking, singing, dancing chicken puppet would get him to eat his damn dinner without me having to threaten him.