Oh, what's in a name? Oct 8th, Entry #108.

Sara:
Last night, as I was venturing back towards the front of the room to get things started, I noticed 3 kiddos drawing on the board.  As I was about to tell them to move it so we could pray I looked at their drawings and learned that they were drawing their last names.  Yes, drawing their last names.  All thanks to one kiddo who had drawn a cloud on his name tag next to his name, because his last name, cleverly enough, is Cloud.  Well, these other kids wanted to do the same even though their names were not nearly as easy to draw.  Did that stop them, or the rest of the kids, from trying anyways?  Absolutely not.  Hilarious.

Check out their artwork.

The big picture.

 



Some of the easier ones.

Yup, just like it looks like.
Actual name = Lock

Horn + ung = Hornung

D + haze
Actual name = Dehais

Some of the more difficult ones.

Mac + n + cup of tea
Actual name = McEntee

Bush + angry/rowdy eyes and arms
Actual name = Roudebush  (hahaha)

Rowboat + back + er
Actual name = Robacker

Glee + s + man
Actual name = Gliesman 

Totally the hardest one and I would never have been clever enough to come up with this.

M + eyes + z + in (the box) + Bach (the musician)
Actual name = Meinzenbach


Now for Chris and I, because hey, it our blog so we can do what we want.

Brick wall + crying tears.
Actual name = Walters

Scissors + sheep.  What do you call it when you cut the hair of a sheep?  Shearing. 
Actual name = Sheerin.  Get it??  (I'm sooo clever)
 

And now, for the ones that just cracked me up.



Wonder + lick
Actual name = Wonderlich  (YES!!)

Yup, it's just what it looks like.
Actual name = Hickey 

Things like this have become some of my favorites parts of this job.  When random stuff like this happens organically and everyone gets into it.  I couldn't have planned an activity like this.  I wouldn't even have thought of it.  But these kids are so stinkin' clever and funny that incidents just like this one happen all the time.  And then, even more than anything else, these kiddos take ownership of this place and this youth group and these people.  It becomes theirs in a way that I could never make happen.  One more reason why we have the best job ever.