The Primary Program is really the best Sunday of the year. Yesterday was no exception. My kids were pure entertainment. We spent the week and morning before church beautifying them and practicing their parts. I look forward to this every year. And I know the Primary Presidency works really hard on this.
Now for my kids, Shall we start with the oldest
Noah: who is 7
The entire time he looked like he was extremely tired and totally bored. He had a dead pan look on his face. He was wearing his "James Bond outfit" from Ginny's wedding with no tie. He rarely sang the songs except every once in awhile one of the sentences. Kersten made the comment that he needed to teach Noah the "watermelon" trick. The boys and their Dads sang the 3rd verse of Praise to the Man together. Noah just stared into the microphone. One of the Sunbeams was singing his heart out, which made this fabulous.
When it was his turn to do his speaking part
which was to be about how he loves the stories of war in the Book of Mormon, such as the Armies of Helaman and Captain Moroni.
He swaggers up to the microphone as if to say "I am going to nail this"
and says " I love the temple because we get married there, not on the beach or in a church but in the temple" and struts back to his seat.
Kersten and I were laughing so hard that the bench was shaking. A couple behind us tapped us on the shoulder and said that it was their favorite part of the program so far. He spoke with such confidence and was factual. This is the boy who at the age of 3 played Star Wars and flung Spiderman webs all over the stand during the program.
Now for my Sofia: who is 3
This girl said she looked Perfect. She wore her Easter dress and a flower headband
she got from Avery's birthday party (Kieran's daughter).
She threw a huge fit before church because she had to wear makeup,
so chapstick was smeared all around her mouth and on her cheeks.
because it was a "special occasion" I gave in and put a bit of eyeshadow on her eyes.
When on the stand her hair had flipped over the headband and was in her eyes.
She attempted to sing only her favorite songs.
She started rolling her eyes into the back of her head and
pulling on them so you could see the whites of her eyes.
She has dancing fingers so they were all over during the music.
Our favorite part was when she starting swaying back and forth like Stevie Wonder,
looking up toward the ceiling, bumping into the kid next to her.
When her turn came up for her speaking part... That morning she had it down pat.
She was suppose to talk about how she loved the temple because her mom and dad got married there.
And that we are a family forever.
She talked all week about how she got to talk in a real microphone.
She says "I love the temple, it's great. I go there. "
Gives her million dollar grin and bounces back to her seat.
And her parents go into another round of hysterics.
Their performances were really quite epic.
At least our children offered up some entertainment in church yesterday.
They made me proud.
