I’m starting back in the Wee Village at MCC this Sun. morning. We normally go to church in the evenings but there was some mix-up so I told them I’d help out this week. Steve & I are going to start volunteering back there once a month now so I’m excited about that. I hate to miss the service/sermon but I feel like it’s only fair to go back once a month & help out when they’re asking for more help and we do take our child back there!

Noah has gone 4 straight weeks in the Wee Village without us having to go back & get him after a little while. Steve takes him back and he does cry & freak out to begin with but after he hands him to someone and leaves he’s been calming down and staying back there. One main reason is Carlee (I Think that’s how they spell it but now I’m 2nd guessing myself.. )- who is the granddaughter of both the head pastor at MCC and our family friend, Peg (other side of her family) who’s my mother-in-law’s boss. Carlee is something like 12ish or so I think and Noah is in love with her. She’s fantastic with him. He’s stayed back there b/c of her and I think that’s really helped him to see that it’s no big deal to stay and that we’ll be back to get him! He keeps saying “daddy be right back?.” It’s adorable. Every time I go somewhere, he’ll say “Mommy going bye bye? be right back?”… and as long as I reassure him he seems to be fine with it lately, which is working out really well for us! We have always been able to leave him with people but only very specific people and now I think he’s going to do well with just about anyone as long as you give him a few minutes to get warmed up to them. He went to any and everyone until he was about 10 months old.. then the clingy-ness began! All the women back in the Wee Village would say to us “It’s just a phase, don’t worry”,  and I believed them but I wondered very much if Noah’s “phase” was going to last a whole lot longer than most kids! But I think we’re in the clear now! I’m so excited. As soon as we turn into the church parking lot he now starts saying “gonna play?” and he’ll list everything he can think of that they do back there.. “color?, pretzels?, singing?, play?, goldfish?”..

The thing about MCC is that it’s a huge church and there’s always someone different working back there. So he wasn’t able to get used to anyone in particular. Now that Carlee has helped us out I really think it’ll be smooth sailing. And now that Steve & I will work back there together once a month, I think the probability of him having a fit & freaking out are going to go down more & more. Hopefully we’ll get to know more people and he will, too, and that’ll help us out even more. We shall see!! I’m just ecstatic that we will no longer be seeing his number flash on the screen every Sun.! I won’t be praying with one eye shut and one eye on the screen ready to see that number pop up! Yay for Wee Village!!