Challenge accepted!
ALS is a serious disease, and until recently, the only reason that many people ever heard of it was due to the death of Lou Gehrig, a baseball player from the 30's. But now, thanks to a brilliant marketing campaign, everyone knows what it is. The concept was simple: get challenged by someone else to dump ice water on your head, and then 'nominate' three others.
Daddy wasn't exactly keen on it until he understood the reasoning behind it all. In fact, before creating our own video, he had Madison sit and watch a video of another Father-daughter team taking the challenge. The dad's name was Kreg Palko, and he is suffering from ALS right now. Although once an incredibly active surfer and mountain climber, he is currently paralyzed. His daughter takes good care of him, and proudly dumped a bucket of ice water on her head. But the video didn't stop there: her father couldn't let everyone else take the challenge without doing it himself. And so, his daughter poured the ice water on his head as well. And Madison laughed. We talked about the effects of this disease, and why it is so important to do what we can to help others discover a cure, and help others who have such crippling diseases.
And then we were up for the challenge. We set up the iPad outside on the side of the house, and Daddy accepted the challenge - another pastor from our Gwinnett campus, Bryan Woodson, called me out after getting dunked himself. After accepting the challenge, I pretended to hesitate about the decision - and that's the point that Mommy rushes in with a bucket and dumps it all over me!
Madison loved that, of course. And it was really cold too - we added the ice moments ago. Even though the weather was hot outside, that ice water was cold, cold, cold!
So Daddy then issued the challenge to his three people: our friend at church Chris, and Mary Jo (who lives in South Carolina now), and also Aunt Shain. And then in a surprise move, Daddy turns and challenges Madison, who puts her hands on her cheeks in surprise - and squeals!
And then she gets dunked too! And yep, there was ice in that water too! Madison laughed and screamed as it happened, and turned to the camera to issue her challenge: "Hannah Berry, I challenge you to get dunked with ice water!"
We posted the video on the social networks and got a quick response. Any video with Madison in it is going to get lots of smiles, and we were glad to do it. But best of all, we were glad to continue to keep the ALS awareness campaign going. The internet has been filled with horror lately, terrible news of unrest in Iraq, Ukraine, Israel, and even here in Missouri. But it's been good to see so many people going along with this Ice Bucket Challenge. The social networks are crammed with one video after another of people dumping water on themselves or each other. Former President George W. Bush did it, he himself challenging former President Clinton. The actors from "Guardians of the Galaxy" have done it. Even candidates in all the Georgia state races have done it, they themselves challenged by news anchors on a television morning show, who themselves took the challenge on live television. Professional sports athletes have done it too - as well as quite a few of the people we know. Everyone challenges someone else, and so on and so on and so on. And as the fun spreads, so do the contributions and awareness. What's not to like?
Today was a testing day for Madison, so the dumping of water was probably a nice stress relief. Although she doesn't get too stressed about tests yet. Daddy always got strangely stressed about assessment tests, even though you aren't supposed to know all the answers. He wanted to get them right anyway. It's like a Kobayashi Maru, where there are no winners!
Still Madison said she did well, although she didn't know everything. She was okay with that too, so it must have been explained sufficiently.
We did our piano homework today, which didn't take as long. That's a good thing, to start out nice and easy, right? We're playing "Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho" and other songs and chords this week.
At night, we watched "Nanny McPhee," which was fun to watch on the couch with Mommy and Madison. And popcorn. Always have to have popcorn. Madison laughed at quite a bit, and we might be watching the sequel tomorrow night if all works out. Lots to do for this weekend, but we're plugging away to make a big splash!
ALS is a serious disease, and until recently, the only reason that many people ever heard of it was due to the death of Lou Gehrig, a baseball player from the 30's. But now, thanks to a brilliant marketing campaign, everyone knows what it is. The concept was simple: get challenged by someone else to dump ice water on your head, and then 'nominate' three others.
Daddy wasn't exactly keen on it until he understood the reasoning behind it all. In fact, before creating our own video, he had Madison sit and watch a video of another Father-daughter team taking the challenge. The dad's name was Kreg Palko, and he is suffering from ALS right now. Although once an incredibly active surfer and mountain climber, he is currently paralyzed. His daughter takes good care of him, and proudly dumped a bucket of ice water on her head. But the video didn't stop there: her father couldn't let everyone else take the challenge without doing it himself. And so, his daughter poured the ice water on his head as well. And Madison laughed. We talked about the effects of this disease, and why it is so important to do what we can to help others discover a cure, and help others who have such crippling diseases.
And then we were up for the challenge. We set up the iPad outside on the side of the house, and Daddy accepted the challenge - another pastor from our Gwinnett campus, Bryan Woodson, called me out after getting dunked himself. After accepting the challenge, I pretended to hesitate about the decision - and that's the point that Mommy rushes in with a bucket and dumps it all over me!
Madison loved that, of course. And it was really cold too - we added the ice moments ago. Even though the weather was hot outside, that ice water was cold, cold, cold!
So Daddy then issued the challenge to his three people: our friend at church Chris, and Mary Jo (who lives in South Carolina now), and also Aunt Shain. And then in a surprise move, Daddy turns and challenges Madison, who puts her hands on her cheeks in surprise - and squeals!
And then she gets dunked too! And yep, there was ice in that water too! Madison laughed and screamed as it happened, and turned to the camera to issue her challenge: "Hannah Berry, I challenge you to get dunked with ice water!"
We posted the video on the social networks and got a quick response. Any video with Madison in it is going to get lots of smiles, and we were glad to do it. But best of all, we were glad to continue to keep the ALS awareness campaign going. The internet has been filled with horror lately, terrible news of unrest in Iraq, Ukraine, Israel, and even here in Missouri. But it's been good to see so many people going along with this Ice Bucket Challenge. The social networks are crammed with one video after another of people dumping water on themselves or each other. Former President George W. Bush did it, he himself challenging former President Clinton. The actors from "Guardians of the Galaxy" have done it. Even candidates in all the Georgia state races have done it, they themselves challenged by news anchors on a television morning show, who themselves took the challenge on live television. Professional sports athletes have done it too - as well as quite a few of the people we know. Everyone challenges someone else, and so on and so on and so on. And as the fun spreads, so do the contributions and awareness. What's not to like?
Today was a testing day for Madison, so the dumping of water was probably a nice stress relief. Although she doesn't get too stressed about tests yet. Daddy always got strangely stressed about assessment tests, even though you aren't supposed to know all the answers. He wanted to get them right anyway. It's like a Kobayashi Maru, where there are no winners!
Still Madison said she did well, although she didn't know everything. She was okay with that too, so it must have been explained sufficiently.
We did our piano homework today, which didn't take as long. That's a good thing, to start out nice and easy, right? We're playing "Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho" and other songs and chords this week.
At night, we watched "Nanny McPhee," which was fun to watch on the couch with Mommy and Madison. And popcorn. Always have to have popcorn. Madison laughed at quite a bit, and we might be watching the sequel tomorrow night if all works out. Lots to do for this weekend, but we're plugging away to make a big splash!
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