ShoutWhispering

Yesterday at church we brought the boys into the second service (we had just gone to the first service) because we wanted to see our friend's baby boy get dedicated.
We tromped up the stairs and sat in the balcony.
We sang one song and then the worship leader started talking a bit about what God had been teaching her.
When you're with kids, any kind of "quiet" time seems to stretch on and on into infinity.
In my mind, she was talking
a lot.
And Noah wanted to draw so he was ShoutWhispering to me that he wanted to draw an "H" for me and an "O" for Daddy and so I said that was fine and gave him some paper.
Jude was forgoing the ShoutWhispering and loudly pointing out the many fans that were on the ceiling.

FAN!

MORE FAN!

Yes. Yes. Lots of fans.
Here, have an Altoid.

CANDY!

Noah ShoutWhispers

I WANT TWO CANDIES!

And then Noah catches the word "children" coming from the worship leader.

In a ShoutWhisper:

CHILDREN! MOM! SHE SAID CHILDREN!

Yes, she said children. She's talking about how we are God's children. If you love Jesus, you are a child of God. I love Jesus so I'm God's child.

YOU'RE NOT A CHILD! YOU'RE A GROWN UP!

Oh Noah. You do make me smile.

We sang a couple more songs and then got to watch our friend's son get dedicated.
And then we high-tailed it outta there! {read: Jamie scooped up Jude and Noah stomped all the way down the balcony stairs, across the balcony and then slid down the banister that I used to slide down when I was a little girl.}