The Circus is in town...

As we were walking out the door for church this morning, Scott got paged and had to go in to the hospital. So it was just me and the kids at sacrament meeting. I was prepared. I had several packs of smarties, toy cars, crayons, etc... Caleb is always difficult at church, but today he was bordering on crazy zoo animalish. Maybe it was the 4 packs of smarties that I kept feeding him to keep him quiet? Anyhow, he managed to wiggle his way out to the aisle and bee line it to the front several times. So I got quite a bit of exercise chasing him and bringing him back to our seats. Just when I thought he was worn out, he took off to the front again, went up the stairs, and was just a few steps away from the podium before I caught him. As I carried him down the stairs, I tripped over Ryan (who unbeknownst to me had followed me up to the front) caught myself on the sacrament table (knocking a tray over spilling water), and sent Ryan sprawling down the stairs where he landed face first and his toy transformer went flying, landed, and made the sound, "I am Optimus Prime". I'm sure this all wasn't in the least bit distracting. The bishop got up to talk afterwards and said, "We'd like to congratulate Brother Hacking for making it all the way up to the front. Not many kids make it this far. I'm certain he will go far in life."