Fun in church

This past Sunday we slept in a bit and ended up having some issues getting to church on time.  In fact, for whatever reason I took Emma and Mary with me in the van and Genni brought Josh a few minutes behind us.  The girls and I walked in after the meeting started and got the latecomers’ bench near the front of the chapel.  Things were ok for a while.  The girls were happily sharing my lap (which is unusual).  They were sitting quietly and coloring and all was good.

Then, just as sacrament was about finished, Mary decided she wanted to go into the aisle.  When Mary wants to get somewhere she has several techniques to get there.  She struggles and fights and then starts to loudly state what she wants.  So imagine a quiet chapel, people pondering, when all the sudden the little girl in the front starts yelling, “I want to shake my bootie!”  She had decided it was time to go in the aisle and start dancing, or “shake her bootie".  Of course, since I wouldn’t let her, she repeated her desire several times, getting progressively louder each time.  Genni wasn’t there yet so we couldn’t just escape, but a coloring book saved me.  She was distracted by the coloring book pictures, but not before the damage was done.  My hope is that everyone got a good laugh out of it.  I sure did.