Luke has been to church just about every weekend of his life. There are very few weekends that I can recall him not going. He generally is pretty good. In fact, 3 weeks in a row now we have made it through the whole mass without taking Luke into the children's room.
He really gets the routine. He
knows he is supposed to be quiet, but we have to remind him of this quite frequently. He points out "Fadder" multiple times throughout mass. When we walk in, Luke really looks forward to dipping his hand in the holy water. He makes a pretty good attempt at the Sign of the Cross and usually very loudly says "Amen!".
When it is time to stand up during mass, which of course is multiple times, Luke lets everyone know by saying "sand up". He LOVES putting the envelope in the basket. You can see the anticipation in his face as the basket gets closer and closer to us. And if there is a second collection at the end of mass, Luke asks us for money so he can do it again!
Luke is also very friendly to the other parishioners. In our church, we all hold hands during the Our Father and Luke very willingly will hold one of the other parishioner's hands. He also makes sure he shakes hands with everyone around him during the Sign of Peace. Everyone just loves shaking hands with Lukey!
The main reason I decided to blog about church today though is because this morning Luke did something at mass that we had no idea he even knew anything about. After mass was over, we guided Luke out of the pew and at the end, he genuflected! It was the cutest thing I have ever seen! I was literally cracking up! It's so funny the things that kids pick up on that you don't even realize. I think we usually are carrying Luke out of church and genuflect with him in our arms so he knew just what to do when he walked out on his own! One other lady saw him and was also laughing pretty hard!
