Jackson's First Performance

We went to J's preschool Christmas program yesterday and it was a hoot!  I was wondering what the teachers were going to do with all those 3-year-olds... I can't imagine getting just Jackson to sing on cue, let alone a whole bunch of little kids together!  Phil and I were really interested to see how J would react to being on stage, too.  He pretty much did exactly what we thought he would do... he just stood there!  :)  Most of the other kiddos were singing and doing the hand gestures, but not our J.  He just kind of hung his arms down and looked down at the ground.  :)  Luckily, he wasn't the only one who just stood there, but he was the only one who started to cry a little!  He saw Phil taking pictures of him and after that it was all over.  We were thankful that he didn't bust out bawling and run off the stage - he just stood there with a few tears running down his face and his lower pouty lip sticking out.  It was precious!!  The kids basically just stood on stage and sang a bunch of songs (like "Mary Had a Baby Boy", "Where is Thumbkin?", "Twinkle, Twinkle", "Jingle Bells", "We Wish You a Merry Christmas", "Jesus Loves Me", "Happy Birthday to Jesus", etc.) and did some hand movements, but it was so cute!  Some of them were real performers - you could tell.  After the program I talked to another mother who was there for their practice run on Tuesday and she said that J did perfectly on that day!  He sang all of the songs and even made the motions!  I guess he was just overwhelmed by all of the people.  Here are some pictures...

Here he is after he spotted Phil in the audience...

 

Then afterwards we had cookies and chatted with some other families and everyone was happy!

We love his little preschool.  It's not fancy, but it's perfect for what he needs right now and his teacher is very sweet and loving.  He just adores her.  And we haven't been the best about going to church lately (since Emmett hates the nursery and screams bloody murder and one of us ends up being down there with him the whole time), so I like that Jackson is learning about Jesus somewhere other than at home.