marked improvement

henry has started joining us
for worship in church,
or bigchurch as the kids call it.
just before the sermon,
the children are dismissed
to realchurch with their peers.

of course, when the adults in
bigchurch stand to sing,
junior pew-goers are left
standing in a sea of belt buckles,
unable to see anything more than
a foot away, contributing to
henry’s general squirminess
in the pew last sunday.

effort no. 1 in trying to improve
his worship-ability:
practice church
with morven as worshipleaderperson
and real bulletins.

i must say, his behavior was
a+ perfect this week.
and he got a cookie from the cookieroom
to celebrate.
and hot chocolate.
there was that much improvement.

ps – morven was channeling scott c
as her worshipperson example, making up
a story about her ’son ezra’ to entice henry
to really listen. so morv, cory & i choked
back giggles when scott started
worship this week with, ‘my son, ezra…‘
and
henry’s eyes bugged out.

enjoying the Lord’s day in apt 1.