Confession and the park

Christopher makes his first communion next weekend so I took him to church to go to confession.  Joy said she had some things that she needed to go for and so she asked to come with us.  I asked them both if they had to use the bathroom before we went.  Both said no.  So, we got to church and get in line and it's Christopher's turn to go to confession so he goes in with the priest.  Not 2 minutes later, he comes bounding out of the confessional and yells to me "Mom, I've gotta go to the bathroom really bad!"  Joy goes to take his place in the confessional and he's yelling at her "you have to wait until I get back from the bathroom!"  I motion for her to go anyway as he's not holding up the line until he uses the bathroom as there were a lot of people in line.  I'm trying to get him to hurry so that he can slip back in line before his sister comes out of the confessional, but he started messing around.  Finally get back in there and Joy is out already and so I had to ask one of the ladies if he could slip back into line to finish his confession.  Thankfully, she didn't mind at all!  How embarrassing!  I kept wondering "has this ever happened to anyone else before?"  Anyway, I'm just glad he was able to finish his confession and he's all set for his 1st communion next weekend!

We took a little ride last night and found a little park for the kids to go play at.  It was fun to sit on the swing bench with hubby and watch the kids run and play.  All I kept thinking was how far the kids have come.  When Joy came to us, at 3 years old, she wouldn't play on the playground equipment for anything.  She'd sit in the dirt and play.  She will play on everything now, although she still sits and plays in the dirt sometimes too.  She really doesn't like her feet leaving the ground for long, but oh how far she's come!  And Grace was running all over the place!  How far she's come since she came to us at 23 months and wouldn't ever leave my side!  She was the one that we worried about as she wouldn't explore her environment and now she's running and climbing all over the park!  Christopher has never had any issues as he loves to run, spin, and jump, but it was still fun to watch him as Daddy pushed him on the tire swing and he was spinning all over!  Catherine loves to be outside as well so she was just eating that all up!  We took them out for ice cream after that and had a great time!