Thursday, April 19, 2012

Proud Mommy Moments: Church Voice

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Attending church with three young children is not always the most enjoyable thing. Some weeks we leave thinking, did we get anything out of that today? But still we go, knowing we are doing what we should, knowing we are instilling good habits and values.

This last Sunday was actually going pretty well. Alex was quietly coloring and Lucas was drawing rockets and machines he was going to invent. Ryder was even being pretty quiet- occasionally wandering back and forth between me and Eric.

In the middle of Sacrament meeting a teenage girl sang a beautiful song accompanied by a violin and pianist. I was soaking in the music, the whole room still and quiet feeling the beautiful spirit the music brought. Ryder came by my legs and reached out his arms wanting to be lifted up. I picked him up turning him so he could see the musicians. He didn't want to see the musicians but wanted to go see daddy. He began walking down the pew to get to Eric. When he got to where Lucas was sitting, naturally he tried to step over him-- but little toddler legs aren't always that long.

"He's stepping on my private parts!" Lucas said laughing.
My head whipped around- daggers shooting out of my eyes- quickly lifting Ryder up and over Lucas. Shhh! My eyes shout out. I tried to do everything to stop my face from turning bright red.

Thankfully Lucas had used his "church voice" so only those immediately around us were privileged to his comment. Such a proud mama I was.

What is your Proud Mommy Moment this week?

21 comments:

  1. Oh my goodness, that is too funny! Glad he used his church voice :)

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  2. Ha ha hey at least he did use his church voice! Those silly kids!

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  3. Hahaha! My kids don't even know how to use a "church" voice so that would have been even worse at this house. Haha!

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  4. Oh gosh, I'd have been mortified! Isaac can't talk yet, but if his babble is anything to go by he only has one sound setting and it's loud!

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  5. It's hilarious! That will be a funny one to talk about down the road. :)

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  6. Oh wow, I can only imagine! What a funny {embarrassing} story.

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  7. OMG! That is hilarious!!! Kids just say what's on their mind! I love it! We took Emma into the church with us on Easter (instead of the daycare) and she doesn't understand inside voice just yet so while we were trying to listen to the service, she was asking questions like "Are we done yet?" and "Where's the Easter Bunny?" So embarrassing!

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  8. Ha ha! That's funny! Sacrament meeting sure is a place fraught with many perils when you have children!

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  9. Now that's awesome. And he used his church voice!!!! HAHAHAHA.

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  10. Hahah!!!! So great. We are so desperately trying to work on the church voice. Maybe one day. For now, the people in front of us get a whole lot of "vrooms" and "choo choos"!

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  11. Ahh, so funny!

    It reminds me of the time when we were sitting in church and there was a family behind us. A teenage boy, and his little brother (mom was in the choir). At some point, the little boy scooted around and tooted (LOUDLY) on the wooden pew. It was hilarious. No one could keep from laughing.

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  12. Hahaha!!! Oh, Emmy...I'm so glad you document these moments so you can look back and laugh, and for blackmail ;)

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  13. I'm sorry, but that's great. My ex's nephew used to yell choo choo when the train would go by. It became a weekly comical event.

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  14. I can only imagine how you would have felt had he said that very loudly! wu!

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  15. That's a good one... we've all had moments like that! I believe I told the pastor my mother wore a bra or some such business during the children's sermon when I was little!

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  16. lol. Oh, that made me laugh so hard. But, like you said, at least he used his church voice. :-)

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  17. Thank goodness for small miracles!!

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  18. We are still working the the "church" voice at my house. JDaniel thankfully had Sunday school during the main church service.

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  19. Tell me please... how you taught him to even USE a church voice? Because golly my kid cannot get the hang of it for nothing!

    :) Too funny the remarks kids make in church!

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