Harper took her first alone steps at ten months, but for the past few weeks has needed a grown-up hand for comfort. Last week, though, all of a sudden she took off! We were in the dining hall and Harps and I left while Bret was still eating. I took her out to Main Street (if you know the 'bu) set her down and she just bolted back into the dining hall to see her daddy! We came back to our lodge and she bolted from the living room into the office to see Jessica! She has not stopped since then! She is a completely confident walker now and gosh it's hard to keep up with her! She loves stairs and she loves every dirty, dangerous place that I don't want her to go. So no more dirty crawling knees for Harper she is now a smooth walker! I also took a video of her adorable walking skills that I cannot post from Malibu but I will post when we get home!
Hans and Frans are doing great making kids laugh. It's fun to see them improving as time goes on. They are really in a groove now, and things seem to be getting easier for them. The campers have been very excited about getting "pumped up"! Everything at Malibu is top notch this session. Jeff has been blowing it out of the park with his speaking, Mark Wagner has been playing amazing music, and the workstaff has been working as hard as they can!
Jeff does a cool activity called "post secrets" where kids can write down secrets and insecurities that they've been carrying and hiding. The kids don't write their names, so it is all anonymous. Jeff then shows some of the "secrets" in a slide show and he nails others to a cross. For many kids this will be the beginning of a long process of healing. It is not all sadness though, because later this week he will reveal to them who the true Healer is. Hopefully in their cabin times they will be feeling both sadness and joy this week.
