Our Adventures in Nursery (Cont.)

This last Sunday was probably one of our best Sundays this year! It was nice to effectively manage the nursery and not have too many disasters or long moments of crying. Things weren’t perfect, but it felt like we were making progress—which is nice.

Chris has often tried to divert attention of crying children or otherwise amuse the kids in nursery by “riding” the stick horse and making galloping sounds. When he saw one of our boys holding the stick horse he encouraged him to “ride” it. When Chris made the galloping noises Andrew would trot in place, but he would stop when Chris stopped. It was so funny.

Someone left a basket of the wedding bubbles in our nursery room, which we have put to good use. Not all of our kids are used to blowing bubbles and recently, one of our little girls managed to practically eat the wand when she was trying to blow the bubbles herself. She wasn’t trying to eat it… she just didn’t understand that you hold the wand outside your lips when you blow. Well, in the process of “blowing” she managed to get some of the soap in her mouth or something, so even though the wand wasn’t working, her mouth was… and out of her mouth came bubbles!

On a separate, but somewhat related note, we were able to spend much of sacrament meeting being entertained by Becca, one of our nursery girls from last year. She absolutely loves Chris, and it has been a lot of fun to interact with her and her family since we moved into the ward. Initially, she sat a few rows ahead of us (in the back, where we are all in chairs). She knew we were behind her and would often make faces at us or stare at us until we looked at her and then she would smile and hide her face (I’m sure you are familiar with that game). At one point during the passing of the sacrament she was sitting in her chair, facing us, with her head propped on her little fist. It was one of those cute, picture-perfect poses. She was watching us (mostly Chris, I think) and then she quietly said our last name and turned around. After sacrament she joined us and sat with us periodically, allowing Chris to read whatever book she brought with her each visit. I think Chris was in heaven. =) He was also glad to hear that we were asked to help out with Becca and her older siblings next Sunday when her mom is out of town. Since her dad is in the bishopric, we will go to their house before church, bring the kids to church, and sit with the children during sacrament. I don’t think I could have a husband happier to perform such a service! =)