Maizie's First Time at Church

We took Maizie to church for the first time today. We only stayed for sacrament meeting, though, because it's my brother's birthday and we're going to be leaving soon to go visit him and his family.

Getting ready for church went very well. We woke up with lots of time to get ready, so we weren't very rushed. We even had time to take a family picture before we left:



Surprisingly, we were able to arrive at church early. Not on time, but early! That's pretty much a miracle in my book :)

I was expecting to get bombarded by everybody wanting to see Maizie (which would have been fine), but it wasn't bad at all. We sat down at the row nearest to the door, just in case Emily had to take Maizie out. She did very well right from the beginning. She was just calmly looking at the people behind us. The prelude music didn't seem to bother her at all. The music for the actual singing was much louder, though. We were thinking it would bother her, but it actually didn't! The three songs we sang throughout sacrament meeting were "Praise to the Lord, the Almighty", "Reverently and Meekly Now", and "Lead Me into Life Eternal". She was completely fine for all of them. In fact, she slept through the last one!

The only time that Maizie got fussy was right after we got the bread during the passing of the sacrament. Emily had to take her out to feed her, but that was it. I'm glad it went well!