Playing Primary

When I was little I remember 'playing Primary.'  I loved directing my little brothers and teaching them, doing singing time while crazily waving my pencil through the air (baton).   I vividly remember feeling so grown-up and super organized with my little notes and agendas on my clipboard.  But the absolute BEST was singing time.  Our best friends' nanny was the chorister... and not just any chorister... it was during the time when Mary Poppins was all the rage, and Sally Cunningham, our chorister, was from England and had a yummy, flowing, and lovely accent... we all wanted to be just like her, so we'd imitate her as we sang and played 'Primary.' (because what little girl doesn't love that accent)?  My mom says that at Christmastime we used to ask her if we could sing 'the birdie song'...."Hawk the Herald Angels Sing."

On Sunday I overheard my girls playing Primary, sans the accent.  I had just been set apart for my new calling in the Stake Primary Presidency, so I'm sure that's why Primary was on their minds.  It made me laugh inside and I thought how very impressionable they are-- they want to be like us big ogre adults!  They just soak up everything they observe and hear, and then repeat it and practice as they're feeling so grown-up.  Their favorite thing about Primary besides singing time is actually the 'spotlight.'

So there stands Alexie, with her fake notes in hand... with Izzie & Monson as her audience calling out little factoids about the 'spotlight.'  And they did it over, and over, and over again.  Here's what I caught:

Alexie:  "I'm the Primary President!!!!"  


Izzie:  "I'm the singer"


Alexie:  "It's time to do spotlight... okay, everyone stand up"


"This person likes eating peanuts for dinner" (for reals????  that IS indeedy what we feed our kids for dinner...peanuts)


"This person also likes to eat cake for dinner" (now that might be true)

"This person likes to go in the pool"


"This person wants to go to Russia on a mission"


Monson pipes in: "guys, trust me, you do NOT want to go to Russia"


Izzie: "I don't like that"


Alexie:  "Okay, then.. it's not gonna be you, Monson.  This person is crazy at home"


 "And the spotlight is.... anybody guess?  It's Isabella Daisy!!!!"

They begin to jump up and down and dance and twirl around...because I'm quite certain that's what they'd do in Primary too... if they were the spotlight.