Christmas

This year we celebrated our first Christmas at home.

We're still working out what we want our family traditions to be.

So we started with the Christmas Eve program and family service at church.  I got to be a sheep in the Nativity Scene!

Next year, when I'm 5, I get to be an angel.  They get to do a special dance that celebrates Jesus's birthday.

All of the rehearsals were fun, we sang about Joseph, Mary, baby Jesus, and the angels and shepherds.

Ryan wasn't too impressed with my acting debut.  Mom says I am a natural:  Christmas Program Rehearsal.

Then, when it was finally time for the real service when everyone was invited to come to the altar to take pictures, I was totally over it.  To be honest, every kid in the church was totally over it.  Sitting still for 30 minutes at 5:00 in the afternoon doesn't quite work for the 4 and under set.  

I think it was just fatigue from all the fun we had during the day decorating Murmel's gingerbread house.

Ryan couldn't participate because all the candy was a wicked choking hazard, so he got chocolate pudding as a consolation.  He seemed okay with that.

It was a pretty awesome day, capped off with baking cookies for Santa and putting out carrots for Rudolph!