Can I Die Now?

Troy had to speak in church today, and honestly I think that I was more nervous about being left alone with the kids while he sat on the stand. Our little Drew turns into a demon child during Sacrament Meeting. He has no patience and can not sit through the whole meeting. Still and he is almost 3 1/2.

Thankfully our friends the Waldron's sat with me to help with the kids. To start off, when the sacrament was passed the Deacon handed the tray to my kids. Drew saw his opportunity and practically emptied the tray with one handful. He did it so fast that that I couldn't catch his hand before he was all stuffed into his mouth. Then, just about the time that Troy was ready to start his talk he really started to act up. I was ready to leave with him, but knew that Miles and Tyson would follow. So I starting to tell them that they needed to stay while I left when Katie asked me if she could take him out. I just said "yes!!" Then thought, "I bet that her parents would have rather her stay and watch the other boys while I left." Obviously I spoke before I thought.

So she grabbed Drew and he started yelling "Don't touch me!" "Put me down!" "I don't want you!" At the top of his voice, while kicking and thrashing around. Thankfully we were sitting about 3 rows from the door and Katie was pretty much on a dead run. I guess that as soon and Drew got out of the door and realized that it was Katie and not me he said, "oh hi Katie!"

So at this point I am ready to climb in a hole and die. But, I convince myself that he wasn't screaming as loud as I imaged, and that maybe not that many people noticed. Wrong! I think that everyone in the chapel noticed and all came up to me during the rest of church to let me know that they saw and heard him scream his way out of the chapel. Honestly, I don't know what to do with my overly active and can't still for 2 minutes child. I sure hope that he decides to grow out of this phase soon.