Sunbeams

Somewhere, at one nursery or another they taught my girls "Jesus Wants Me For a Sunbeam". It's not like we haven't tried to teach them that song, but they have others that they would prefer to be singing. So when they get to the part where they say "sunBEAM" Meredith holds her hands in fists and on the beam she opens her hands. It's now on the top of our favorite songs list and it even gets asked for. "Sunbeam" they tell me, and we sing it. I enjoy sitting down at the piano and playing the songs for them. Meredith sits on my lap and Emily sits next to me. Today we practiced the new song for primary, "The Family is of God". Then the girls asked for "Snowman", "Popcorn", "Hinges", "I am a Child of God", "Sunbeam", "Snowman", "Popcorn", "Snowman", Popcorn"...you get the idea. :)

Emily is now in Sunbeams (we'll talk about both kinds in this post, both the class and the song). It's kind of rough for her because Mommy is just right there and so she keeps coming up to the piano. The teacher finally had Emily sit by her so she wouldn't keep getting up. I don't think she knew what to think, so she didn't really participate in anything. After singing time they had sharing time and I went to go be with Meredith for a little while and sing with her (I LOVE to sing with my girls). When I came back into primary the kids were leaving and Emily saw me and ran up to me she was so excited. I gave her a quick hug and told her to go be with her class. She was the last child in her class picked up because Nathan had a meeting right after church and I played the postlude. But both of the girls didn't seem bothered about being the last out. In fact, Meredith was still helping to put away the chairs when she saw me and continued to help. I guess she had just seen me though. Meredith loves nursery. We'll get back to you on Emily. It was still just so new to her since it was her first time (last week she was sick.)