The Best Christmas Pageant Ever

When I was a kid, I remember reading a book with the same name as the Title of this post. I thought it was hilarous, in part because I liked how its main characters weren't perfect (something I can identify with) and it made me realize just because one is unconventional doesn't mean you don't care about what everyone else cares about. The part that ties into this post is every time I think about a kids program at Christmas, I think of this book.

Ed's preschool had it's Christmas program today (and it's a church preschool, so it's a Christmas program). For the last couple weeks Ed has been singing random Christmas songs. Now I didn't think I'd been playing the Christmas music that often, but yet there we were in Target and Ed starts belting out Jingle Bells, asking me if I'd ever heard of the song.

He really does have a sweet voice, and it's just a joy to listen to him, so Den and I were pretty excited, even though we had no idea of what to expect.

They had the 3s and 4s up on stage and it was one Christmas tune after another. We were lucky, as Ed's class was sitting in chairs, right up front, although the boy you see in the blue just in front of Ed (usually you see the side of his face) kept practically standing and so half our pictures are of the kid and not Ed as this kid had a talent for completely blocking out Ed.

We kept tying to get him to notice us--without everyone else noticing us too. He finally noticed us in between songs. He stood up and with a delighted grin yells, "mommy!" and stood standing -- not long enough for a picture, but long enough for everyone to know who'd said it. Okay, so it wasn't that crazy obvious, but Den and I just cracked up, thrilled he'd found us. We'd brought Cookie and Josie too and Josie stood on our knees, being passed amongst us, ocassionally calling out, like a groupie, "Eddie!" as she pointed to him.

Have we mentioned how much we love this preschool? It's just great.