Speed Blogging - Primary Program

Clara participated in her first Primary Program. If only I could have recorded it...

Although I was called into primary, they didn't have room on the stage for me. I was glad I got to watch Clara from the audience, especially since it was her first. She hadn't got much sleep the night before, was totally grumpy all day and had a total melt down five minutes before the program started. I was worried she wouldn't do her part. But she did it and did it perfectly, just as we had rehearsed*. As if that was entertainment enough, she sang. Loud. We heard her hold onto the last note of nearly every song, loud and confident, after everyone else had cut off. At one point, she even put her lips out to accentuate an "oooh", threw her head up in the air and resembled a howling coyote so well that we couldn't help but laugh. I love my little Clara. She's confident, energetic and has such a sweet, literal perspective on life.
*When the Primary President gave me Clara's part she told me Clara's part included a little extra speaking. I told her Clara would be thrilled to talk a lot in the microphone and she said, "Yeah, that's what her teachers told me." Ha ha. All the other Sunbeams had a line to memorize. Clara's part was to tell, in her words, how she knows Jesus loves her. She said she knows Jesus loves her because he sends babies to earth (or "earf" if we're being technical), He created the earth, the sun, the moon, the stars, the trees and the animals ("aminals").