Sacrament meeting woes

Towards the end of last year, I began to notice that it was rare that we had to take Mason out of sacrament meeting. This doesn't, by any means, mean that he sat nicely on our laps, but at least we could somewhat contain his energy into a semblance of reverence. (haha, at least I hope it's a semblance, in reality I'm sure that we're not fooling anyone). :)

Then our meeting time changed from 9 am to 12:30. Mason usually takes a nap between 12:30 and 1:30...so you can imagine that this change made things a little harder for us. Still, Mason has, for the most part, allowed us to at least sit in sacrament meeting with only an occasional visit to the foyer.

Anyways. I, like most of you, try to bring an assortment of things in our church bag to help keep Mason occupied. He really loves the little cars that I got for him a long time ago because he always tried to play with the other kids' cars that their mothers had brought for them.

As cars will do, sometimes these cars get pushed under the row behind or in front of us. Apparently, David has often whispered to Mason to check and see if he can see the car, and if he can, Mason discreetly (we hope) crawls partway under the bench to get it. David says that if Mason doesn't see it, then he usually stays put.

Not this last Sunday. Before we knew what was happening, Mason was not just under the bench in front of us, but was all of the way in the row in front of us. The people looked back and whispered "he's going in front of us, too!". Luckily, 2 rows in front of us where Mason finally sat up to look around, there was an understanding lady who turned him around and sent him back to us. We later found the lost car under our own bench.

I really do try to pay attention in Sacrament meeting!

The next day, I tried to get Mason to pose nicely with the car that began it all, but he was not cooperating.