Primary Program

My baby boy had his first Primary program today at church. I have always been excited for the day when I would be able to watch my own children participate in the program. I still can't believe I have one that is old enough though. I was so excited to watch Kallon up on the stand singing along with the other children. He even had a speaking part that he worked on memorizing. I had this perfect image in my head of Kallon being reverent, singing all the songs and saying his one line in the microphone. What really happened is a different story. All the sunbeams stood along the podium wall in front of the other kids on the stand. There was the sweet little girl in her pink dress with her hair in pigtails with pretty little bows standing with her arms folded and singing her little heart out. Next to her was a boy wearing a vest and tie, his hair combed, and arms folded, attempting to sing the primary songs. Then we have Kallon. His outfit was cute but for some reason unknown to any of us he likes to pull his pants up Erkel (?) style. They were pulled up so high you could see the top of his ankles. I promise I fixed them and just when he got out of my arms reach he looked back at me with the look of "oh yeah, mom" in his eyes and gave his pants a good yank. His white shirt was half un-tucked and his tie had been pulled to the side. He also has a butchered hair cut thanks to me not knowing what I'm doing. Maybe saving the eight bucks isn't worth it after all, especially when he has to stand in front of our entire ward the next morning. I tried to fix it but it was just not happening this morning. To top it off Kallon liked to turn around and face the other kids and watch them sing so his back was to the congregation. His teachers tried numerous times to get him to turn around, he would but only for a few minutes. When he did turn around he had his lovely little finger up his nostril!!! Must have been something good up there because his finger was in the nose for most of the program. UGH! I kept trying to give him hand signals to knock it off but my efforts were ignored. He didn't sing, didn't even try, but his speaking part went okay. He didn't really talk into the microphone so you couldn't hear him very well. Considering I didn't even think he would actually go up on the stand with the other kids we can count his first program a success.



Our sweet little Kallon