Comparisons

Faith is doing her first communion in May, but we missed the regular service in which all the first communion kids were "presented" to the church. So, we had to attend the "makeup" presentation tonight at the 7:00 pm Tuesday service.

This would normally not be too much stress for us, but George was in Ottawa today, and our babysitter was busy, which meant I had to bring Blake and Faith. Blake normally is in bed by 7:30, and we haven't taken him to church for about 3 months because he gets a little rambunctious. So, this was essentially going to be a 30 minute trial by fire for all concerned.

Added to this was Faith's misgivings about anything involving her standing up in front of a room full of strangers, and it was all golden. As in the color of pee.

So, we get to the church chapel (which holds about 15 people) and I'm happy to see that there are four kids and their families there, including one family of four with a little baby and another two-ish-year old. Great! We wouldn't be the only ones making noise.

I couldn't be more wrong.

While Blake smiled, provided commentary, talked on my cell phone, tugged on the chair in front of us, and generally acted like the almost-two-year old boy he is, the other kids his age either slept, or were totally silent. SILENT! As in didn't open their mouths! For 30 minutes. They, in fact, fell asleep in their chairs! With my kid pointing at them and saying "Baby!" every five minutes. I even tried to get him to "pretend" to be like the baby and put his head on my shoulder. He grabbed my nose instead.

On the plus side, Faith survived her "presentation", although she informed me afterwards that there is no way that she's doing anything like that in front of the whole church. I'll leave it to her dad to explain what she actually has to do for first communion. I'm too tired.