Listening to Daddy Play

 

We love our church and Adam has been playing guitar a lot here recently. I love when he plays guitar, partly because he enjoys it so much, but also simply because I like listening to him play. It makes Sunday morning chaos worth it :) I teach Upstreet every other Sunday, so sometimes I’m not in there when he is playing. This particular Sunday, Ava and I got ready early and surprised him at the dress rehearsal so we could listen.

Adam usually leaves the house at 6:30ish on mornings that he is playing, they have to be set-up ready to go by 7:30 so it can make for some hectic Sunday mornings when I am getting Ava ready to go by myself. Why is it that it is so much harder on Sunday mornings that any other morning?! They have a full run thru that volunteers can participate in before the service starts, usually we don’t make it, but on mornings I’m not teaching and Adam is playing, I take Ava into the service with me for the music portion (she can’t stay in there for the message…she hasn’t quite grasped that whole sit still and be quiet thing while we are in church). This particular morning I had made up my mind I was going to make it to the rehearsal, even if it killed me, and surprisingly we walked in during the first song- just in time :)

Ava loves it when her Daddy plays, she will clap and point continuously at him and say ‘Daddy! Daddy!’, when they walk off the stage, she holds up her hands and asks, ‘Daddy?’ She likes to see him on stage. In fact, she, herself, likes to be on the stage…after I pick her up from Waumba Land we walk back in to see Adam and he is usually packing up, so still on the stage. Well, she knows where to find him and walks straight up to the stage, makes her presence known and marches up the stairs onto the stage. Maybe she will grow up to be a great guitar player like her daddy!