Praying at Church

Yesterday we walked the stroller by our church (and around it at Quinn's request). Quinn gets very excited about this. She points out any church she sees ... and trust me, there are a lot of them around here. And whenever she is playing at home and pretending to go somewhere, she picks up her toys and says, "Bye Mom, I go to church."

I took the chance yesterday as we were walking by to ask her what we do at church. She said in a little reverent whisper, "We pray." The best part was she kind of said it in a tone as to say, "Mom, did you forget?" She also said that we sing songs and say our ABC's.

Then today at Church we had a very adorable but long-winded speaker. It was about the time that the meeting should be over, when the last speaker finally stood up to speak. Quinn happen to look over at my friend sitting behind us who had her arms folded as she looked down at her baby. Quinn assumed this meant it was time for the closing prayer (and again, this was a good guess because it would normally have been time to go.) She stood there next to her chair with her arms folded and her head bowed. If other children near her talked, she looked up and shushed them and put her head back down. This went on for quite sometime because, remember, the speaker was not praying, but giving a normal church talk. Finally, Quinn's nanny, who happen to be at church with another family, leaned over and told Quinn she was doing a great job, but it was not time to pray. It took some convincing, but Quinn finally stopped praying!!

Then about 10 minutes later, when she was really getting antsy, she could not wait to get to her nursery class. She did not want to wait for the end of the closing song. Tim said, "It is almost time, Quinn. We just have to say the closing prayer, and then it is time for nursery." She folded her arms and put her head on Tim's knee to wait.

But turns out she wasn't waiting. When the song ended, we could hear that she was saying the prayer herself. "Ah Father, a bess mommy, a daddy, my doggy, my passey, a asher Amen." All done. She was ready to go.