Church

So, church was quite the experience yesterday. Mike and I just kept laughing and laughing and Jordan made big progress.

We have been waiting and waiting for the day when Jordan would be happy in nursery by himself. But, for the past 5+ months we have been taking turns in nursery with him. Well, he has been doing better and better and really looks forward to it when we tell him we are going to church. Unfortunately, this has a negative affect on his ability to make it through sacrament meeting.

Here is the scene. As soon as we got to church, we decided to sit in the overflow area just behind the chapel because Jordan has a tendency to get loud. We were on the side and there was no one behind us. We are on the left side, the opposite side of where they get the sacrament ready.

Right as we sit down, Jordan starts asking for his fruit snacks (in case you don't know, Jordan has a slight...okay, big...obsession with fruit snacks). Maybe we are bad parents, but we give him snacks to get through sacrament meeting. So, we gave him his fruit snacks and he was happy. Church starts and he has a hymn book open and starts trying to "sing" with us for the opening song. It was really cute. After every song now he shouts, "pray!" and then shouts "mamen" after the prayer (we are still working on the concept of quite voice at church...) He then starts saying "ry, ry!" which means nursery and tries to get out the door. Before now we could usually let him go a little bit and then catch him, but he is fast now. So, we were making mad dashes after Jordan for a while. Well, we get to the sacrament and as soon as the young men start passing the bread, Jordan realizes what is going on. He starts saying loudly, "red, red!" for bread and literally started chasing after the nearest boy he could find. So, I chase after him, wrangle him in the seat trying to convince him that they will come to us. They did, and I'm pretty sure he ended up with more than one piece of bread in his mouth. Next, the water. He was calling for water before the bread was even done! I wrestled him until the water came. He did a really good job of drinking it himself. Then, after he finished it he started asking for more. So we gave him his sippy cup. It was around this time that he accidentally dropped his cup into the row behind us and thought it would be fun to keep doing it. All this time Mike is holding Evan and I am trying to deal with Jordan. So, Mike picked up Jordan's cup and kept it and the two of us were trying to get Jordan back into our row. Somewhere in the middle of this I looked over and saw Evan desperately trying to get his mouth on Jordan's cup. At this point Mike and I can't stop laughing. We had to stop looking at each other so we could stop. Mind you, we are only past the sacrament part of the meeting. (In case you are wondering, we had a bag full of toys, books, coloring materials, and snacks that we were unsuccessful at distracting him with.)

After the sacrament Jordan redoubled his efforts to get to nursery. While we were trying to switch kids, Jordan made a run for the front of the chapel. So, I grabbed Evan and Mike took off after Jordan, who made it to the stairs onto the stand. Well, since it was fast and testimony meeting, Mike decided that since he was already on the stand he might as well speak. So, the rest of the meeting was more of all that.

After sacrament meeting, Mike took Jordan to nursery and left. Sounds unimportant, but we have never been able to just leave him! It was nice to be able to go to Sunday School together. We both got to leave at the same time too because our boys had syncronized dirty diapers. The best part of the day was that I got to sit through Relief Society! I honestly don't know the last time I got to do that.

All in all, it was a busy day at church...and I thought Sunday was a day of rest!



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