Josh and I often laugh about the difference between our boys and our girl. Even at 4, I can already see that she will be a warrior with a pen as she doggedly tries to copy letters and numbers, spell her name, and find familiar letters in a sea of words in a book, whereas our boys at that age just used those pens and pencils as literal weapons. Bang bang went the fake gun . . . let me stab you with this sharp pencil tip . . . who has time to write when there are legos to play with!?
At 13, Carter still hasn’t progressed much past that point writing-wise so I’m afraid I’m not going to get much out of him about his time in India, but lucky for us, one of the girls on the trip is a writer. I think she’s around Calvin’s age and her family is on a 5 month long mission/service trip. Josh sent me these two blog posts that she wrote about her time at Little Flock. Like Josh said, “I can’t imagine our boys composing anything close to this quality.” We still have high hopes for Camille though. I can’t wait for her to guest post here!
(the two posts are Snake Village and Beyond the Gate)
http://www.tongeserviceventure.com/#!blogspot/conq
The above link currently isn’t connecting (as of Jan 26). I’m hoping they are just moving their blog to a new hosting site and it will be back online soon. It’s worth reading!