Christmas Cantata

I'm a bit behind in blogging so here's hoping that today I can catch up.

The Christmas celebrations began last week with the long awaited arrival of my parents (YEAH!!) and our team Christmas party which included the kids' cantata. The kids worked on it at school with Ms. Anna and Silas and Kenan were able to join in as wise men for the actual play. I know I am partial but I haven't seen wise men any cuter than the three I saw that day. They were adorable.

Here they are being funny which they like to do more often than not for pictures these days.
Dawson had several lines in the play and he did a great job. After his meltdown at his end of the year play at the french school last year I was a bit nervous that he would fall apart for the performance. He didn't and remembered each line while also keeping watch over his brothers. Here he was as the clapper boy, telling the crowd when to clap or groan.

The three wise men.

The silly wise men.

More silliness...

Coming to worship baby Jesus. (The pictures were taken during the dress rehearsal so I could walk around and take any angle I wanted which is why there is no audience.)

He directed his brothers throughout the play.

Showing Kenan baby Jesus.

The curtain call at the end of the real performance.

We had a wonderful night after the play. The kids did secret Santa and each received a gift and the adults did white elephant gifts.

The next day we also enjoyed our hospital Christmas party that I unfortunately got no pictures of. This year we had more of a carnival type game system that worked really well to help with crowd control. A fun day was had by all, even my parents who had hit the ground running by attending one party after another as they also tried to get over jet lag.