is this a boy thing?

i'm not the only one who has found my voice (see previous post). pace has discovered that he can talk really loudly about a lot of things. i guess this isn't actually a new discovery--he's been perfecting the art for several months now.

this is what i heard in sacrament meeting 2 weeks ago coming from the back row in church (where loren sits with the kids while i am up on the stand playing the organ and delighting in my alone-ness): "yeah! the bread! josh (a deacon), give me some bread. josh, come back here. where you going, josh? where's hailey (josh's sister)? oh, bread! (as someone, not josh, finally makes it to the back row with the sacrament). mommy, you got bread? yum, yum. i have more?"

my other children die of embarrassment every sunday. i try to pretend i am unaffected by the chatter. loren tries to make it through the sacrament in the actual chapel, but is usually required to make an early exit.

pace doesn't limit his exuberance to church meetings, though. we just got back from the grocery store. pace was in one of those 'car' grocery carts. he was very excited about this and was spinning the steering wheel wildly and shouting out "whoo! i go fast! look mommy! yeah!" loud enough to make everyone we passed smile. he also started repeating everything we said. (liesel: "let's get cereal". pace: "yeah! let's get cereal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!", etc.) the other kids were begging each other to be quiet so he couldn't repeat anything. at this point, pace decided to up the excitement by bursting into a rousing rendition of "we will, we will rock you!", which is one of his favorite go-to songs. liesel's reaction to this: "i should have stayed in the car."

i really don't remember my girls being quite so vocal about their excitement. but i guess if a whole grocery store is smiling by the time we leave, it's not such a bad thing. right?