Happy Birthday Jesus

Last week was a busy one! Both Beckett and Helen were involved in Christmas programs with their classes. On Wednesday, Granbob, Grankaki and Auntie Mame came to watch Beckett in his Christmas play with his enrichment class. They performed a play that their assistant teacher had written and Beckett did so well! This was his first play with memorized lines and he was great! There were also several songs in the performance as well. We then went to his classroom and he showed us all of his drawings from this semester that were displayed on the walls. He has learned a lot about drawing! I was SO impressed! Anyway, the sad part about Wednesday is that I left home without my camera and video camera! How did that happen? I don't know, maybe brain over-load!?! I was so upset, but I knew that some of our friends in the class would take a few pics of Beckett. One friend is going to give me a copy of the video she made....so I felt much better after that. However, I have no pics of Beckett in his play to share on my blog. He wore blue jeans and a red shirt. He played himself and spoke about wondering what gift he could give Jesus. It was precious!

Now, please do not think that I have a favorite child since the next pics are all about Helen. Let's just say, I learned a lesson on Wednesday and the first thing that I packed for Thursday's program was the camera! I also have a good friend who takes much better pictures than me, and she sent me several great pics from Helen's performance. Helen was a sheep in her Mother's Day Out presentation of The Nativity. So sweet. All of the boys and girls did such a wonderful job and we were all so proud! Here is a picture of the whole group as they took a bow! Helen is on the front row, looking right in our direction with a huge smile!

Helen with her friend, Wyatt the donkey and a shepherd.

Another picture of the whole group!

Helen did not want a speaking part in the play, so she was given the part of a sheep. However, she was able to give a step-by-step account of each moment of the play and she knew everyone's lines. They had been practicing for over a month, and we ALL knew every word to every song as well as exactly what to expect when we went to the performance! Now, she was too shy to have a speaking part in the play, but at the end, they each took the microphone and told their name and what part they played. She was quite confident and sounded great!

Just a close up of our little sheep. (who has chapped lips, by the way!)

Helen and her cheering section! My mom, dad and aunt were there. Sean's mom and dad were there, and of course her brothers and her mom and dad! We were all so proud of Helen and Beckett too! And might I add, that we were proud of Will, who was quiet and very observant during both of their programs! :)

On Friday, we went to Chattanooga to celebrate Ty and Marley's birthdays! Ty turned four and Marley turned 2 within 3 days of each other, so they celebrated together! Kathy made the cutest cakes for each of them. Here is Marley with her mermaid cake.

And four year old Ty with his shark cake!

It was a busy week with another birthday party earlier in the week, some shopping, doctor's appointments, basketball practice (Sean had to lead practice because the coaches were out of town) and Sean's work Christmas dinner, but we made it through and had a great time! We enjoyed a relaxing Sunday at home and now we are ready for another busy, yet fun week!

Merry Christmas!