Monday, November 14, 2005

I’d yell, too

Went to Church yesterday without Re.

Trying to get four children, including one possible ADHD seven year old and his equally most likely ADHD little sister to behave and be “reverent” is truly a lot like herding cats.

Reha stayed home with her evil head cold and for once I was cursed by my over active immune system. Why couldn’t I be sick, too?

So we are sitting there and I’m trying to keep Ellis from doing wind sprints around the chapel and I was reminded of an incident from a few years ago.

Jonah was about three years old I believe, and for once he was behaving. Amusing himself by laying prone on the floor with his feet on the pew and playing with a toy car. Carrie was being a delightful child and swinging her legs back and forth. The Deal children are not overly blessed in the height department, so her feet had no chance of touching the ground.

But they do manage to connect squarely with Jonah’s crotch.

Next thing you know, Jonah erupts and begins YELLING, “Carrie kicked my penis!” I think he said it four times before one of us could clamp down on his mouth. It wasn’t so much that he was yelling really, which he was; it was that before he began screaming the chapel was dead quiet. So pretty much anything he said about his penis was going to be heard by everyone.

People afterward asked if he was OK.

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