To recap, our church has a family friendly Christmas Eve service. There are costumes available for the kids to participate in a live nativity scene. We sing Christmas hymns, and then our pastor begins reading the Christmas story from Luke, stopping at various points for the children to come on stage at the times appropriate for their costume.
Claire and Will chose the same costumes as last year - angel for Claire, and a donkey for Will. The donkeys, sheep, and cows went on stage fairly early, so they ended up in the back. We were sitting several rows from the stage, and shortly after Will got up there, we saw him stand up with a big frown on his face. It looked like he was chastising some of the other kids who were using their masks to pretend sword fight. This was not surprising - he gets very concerned when other kids aren't doing what they're supposed to do and has a hard time just letting the adults take care of it! There was no way to tell him to let it go without making a bigger scene. Then, we saw him arguing with a bigger kid over something. It wasn't ever clear what caused their disagreement, and fortunately, it never escalated. We were afraid we were going to have to pull him off stage - for the second year in a row! Ugh.
Unfortunately neither kid was interested in posing for a picture afterwards - they were ready for dinner and presents at Nana and Granddaddy's house. Maybe next year!
The live nativity - and this was only about halfway through. Lots of kids in our church!
In this one, you can see Will talking with the older kid on the back left. Again, never was really clear about what was going on there!
The Disgruntled Donkey
Lesson learned in 2012: Two year olds are too young to participate in the live nativity.
Lesson learned in 2013: Sit closer to the front and have Will pick a costume that puts him closer to the front of the stage.
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