Christmas Pageant 2008

The kids (and I) had the Mother's Day Out Christmas Pageant this past Thursday. It was a beautiful program telling the story of Jesus. All of the classes (age 6 weeks to age 5) participated, but the 4 & 5 year olds had actual speaking parts in the program. Maisie was Narrator #1 and she kicked off the program with "God made the world and everything that God made was very good." She practiced and practiced that line and she pulled it off wonderfully. Her class also sang "Silent Night." Finn's class were dressed in black shirts with silver stars painted on the front. They rang bells and marched in the sanctuary (Finn was carried) to the song "Jingle Bells." Ainslie's class were dressed in yellow shirts with stars painted on them and they went on stage and sang "Behold That Star." She absolutely cracked me up. All classes had practiced in the sanctuary prior to the program, but the stage props weren't present during practice. So, when Ainslie got on stage, she turned her back to the audience, and checked out each and every prop. It was hilarious. She kept singing but literally had her back to the crowd the whole song. After the song was over, she turned around and her best friend, Harper, said (rather loudly) "Ainslie, do you see your mommy over there?" Everyone laughed. It was precious.

My two classes, Red and Peach, performed a song as well and it was fun playing mommy and teacher at the same time. All of us teachers were happy with the program but relieved when it was it was through. That ended the year for MDO and we are off until Jan. 5th.