The Christmas Pageant

So today was the GHTC Christmas pageant. Sunday School this morning was the rehearsal- an unqualified disaster for Vake- he must not have slept well because he was just a cranky mess by 10:15 this morning (a fact, incidentally, probably not helped much by the fact that his Mother is his class' teacher).

So, I called Eric on the way home (by 11am) and Vake was in bed taking a nap by 11:15. He slept until after 3pm. When he woke up, he was in an appreciably better mood- and again talking about being Gordon the sheep who says "baa."

And it is at points like this that you realize that the Christmas Pageant moments in life are for the parents as much as they are for the little ones. But anyway.

Here's the little man all decked out in his Christmas pants (a size 5- can you believe he is already there? I thought we'd get a slight reprieve once we kicked diapers to the curb).

"This is me with Raffi on my head."

The little boy in desperate need of a haircut. Hopefully this week while things are slow around the office.

Here's my little sheep- the church actually has a good system worked out- they buy and keep all the costumes- and all the little ones are animals- this year the costumes came from Oriental Trading Company and were cute.

My little sheep. Baaa.

He did pretty well sitting with the other children in the pew- it was all timed pretty well to keep the little ones from getting restless.

When the time came for him to go up and participate, he decided he'd prefer to watch- but he was pretty brave about not trying to come back into the pew where I was sitting. Of course by this time he'd shed the sheep hat- too hot.