I think all of August is surrounded by Emmie’s hospitalizations.  Now that we have that established.

The kids had to miss the official awards ceremony for our church’s summer program.  So, our pastor did the next best thing.   He gave them their own personal awards ceremony.

We were proud of how hard all eight of the kids worked (Emmie isn’t speaking in complete sentences yet).   Yes, all eight.  Y the Brave  worked hard to memorize several verses and succeeded.  We wrote them out in English and then his home language.  He was able to read the verse but also memorize it in English.