Before the main event, the Little Praisers sang a song complete with costumes. Riley was apparently a little perturbed with her costume and did not want to be a tiger lily. She complained to me that she wanted to be a raindrop like the boys. She seems to have gotten over it by the performance.
We've been practicing the lyrics to all the songs in the car. (Truth be told, I was getting a little tired of them after two months.) We've listened to the songs so often, Colin has them all memorized. Riley is still working with him to get all the motions right.
The musical was about trusting God's plan for your life. It was set around a group of children on a soccer team. Riley was pretty excited about her soccer shirt until she saw that everyone had the same one. She thought everyone was going to laugh at her for wearing the same shirt as everyone else. (I think she's practicing for Jr. high.) I finally convinced her it would be fine. She decided later that the shirts were pretty cool.
Riley and were driving to church one morning listening to her music when she started crying. When I asked what was wrong, she said, "Daddy isn't going to live with us anymore." I had no idea where she would get such an idea and why it would come up now. I asked her why she thought that, and her response was, "Because you and Daddy drive different cars to church." Then the light bulb went off. The CD we'd been listening to had dialogue as well as the songs on it. At one point, one boy asks another why his parents drove two separate cars to the soccer practice. The other boy replies that his father isn't living with them anymore. I tried to keep a straight face as I assured her that Daddy was not moving out and that we drove separately because I had to be to church early and stay later.
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