Harvest Moon Festival

The girls enjoyed the York Fair's 4-H petting zoo.  Sapphire kept asking to hold different kittens, guinea pigs, and rabbits, while Pearl preferred to lull her kitten to sleep.  She did eventual switch to a guinea pig.

We also popped in to see the circus, which had Sapphire squealing in delight. The trapeze act especially thrilled them. The tricks on the rope swing at home have jumped up a notch or two since that show.

Sapphire also followed her co-op teacher's advice and found the hatching chicks. This is mesmerizing, as is the slippery duckling slide.  

Later in the week we attended the local FWCC group's Harvest Moon Festival. We learned that the Chinese see a rabbit, not a man in the moon.  The girls made lanterns.  

Just this week we had our two year visit from the adoption agency.  They report back to China on Ruby's progress.  It went smoothly. 

Our Sunday service was a ground-breaking ceremony for the new building.  Daniel and several others had been planning this for weeks, and it was very moving. I helped by updating the eighteenth-century language from a Covenanter's Oath so that it would be readable today.  In effect, we took the same oath the original church members took back in the 1700s.

The kids are plugging away at their musical practice. This week was tech week, and the performances are on Sunday.