A Preschool Christmas Program

A preschool Christmas program. The epitome of cute I must say. The kids all dressed in their Christmas best or in some matching shirts leading you to question your ability as a parent to recognize your kid under any circumstance. The thing is, as Forest Gump says, it is like a box of chocolates. you never know what you are going to get. They practice for months on end, trying to get the kiddos to all sing the songs, stand on stage, do whatever 'special' thing they are supposed to do and hope that the kid DO in the program what they have been practicing all this time. However, you fill the chapel with 100 parents and the kids kind of freak out. They forget that they are supposed to sing, they remember that they want their mommy to hold them NOW, they forget how to hold the tambourine OR they do something really silly that you could never predict.

In our case, Luke was the star singer. In practice, he knew all the words, sang the loudest of all and was the most animated. You might say he was kind of a leader (of the 3 year olds). Well, we were sure in for a surprise when he came out. He decided he would pull his hat down over his head and play peek-a-boo. At first it was funny. Then it was annoying. (Any cute activity that persists more than 3 minutes becomes annoying.) I went from embarrassed to upset. I wanted a picture of him on the stage! No such luck, Luke was too busy trying to be Mr. Funny Guy up there and there was not one split second to catch him without that silly Santa hat over his face. Plus, while he was doing this little shinninigan, he for sure was not singing. Since he was not singing, most of the other little 3 year olds weren't either. I was not happy with his performance, or lack thereof.

Natalie on the other hand did phenomenal. She did so good! I do not know exactly why they put the shortest girls on the top step and the tall girls below them, which makes it VERY difficult to see your vertically challenged daughter. This seems to be a trend that I would like to see changed, because I want to get pictures of my daughter singing!

After all the classes had finished singing, Natalie did the closing prayer. She stood up there all by herself and said the Lord's Prayer. All by herself. I was so proud of her and her big girl voice!