To celebrate Pioneer Day, I got permission to have Adriana attend a Primary activity held this morning, even though she isn't technically a Sunbeam (age 4) yet. Here she is in her "pioneer clothes." Note the authentic bright blue pioneer Crocs. The bonnet is actually one of Miriam's baby bonnets, but luckily Adriana has an unusually small head and was able to don it as part of her wonderful "pioneer-y" ensemble.
As part of the activity the children had to walk to where the games and activities were, up the side of a mountain to another church building (yes, being in Utah it was technically a real mountain, although it wasn't too far, just a little steep).
Adriana managed to get a little help from one of the other Primary children. I also pushed her part of the way with Miriam in the stroller.
Here's Adriana washing and hanging up some clothes. She insisted that she could do everything by herself and she really did surprisingly well with the various activities and chores. I should put her to work at home more often...
It was a fun morning. It was nice to sing the pioneer songs and hear the stories, and Adriana loved interacting with "the big kids." And yes, we will be doing sparklers tonight. :)
2 comments:
I should have done SOMETHING today. But yeah, Peiwen/Darcy worked, too. His boss worked a half-day, and nearly everyone else took the day off (because they had an excuse to, I expect.)
Do you have any pioneer ancestry? I could tell Ehrin's story about the buffalo(s) and the bear (how do you pluralize "buffalo"??), but I don't have any utah pioneer ancestors of my own. (Except the whole joint church ancestry thing, you know - I can consider them ancestors of faith instead of ancestors by blood.) It almost feels like cheating, though.
I've got pioneer ancestors on my Mom's and my Dad's sides. Don't they always tell us at church that we ALL have pioneer ancestors, they just didn't all cross the Plains? Something like that, but I suppose it is true that someone in your family line was the first to join the Church, even if it wasn't at the time of Joseph Smith or Brigham Young. I don't think it's like cheating. Their stories are probably even more interesting. :)
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