Christmas Play

This was Emma's first year in the Christmas play. She was an angel as you can see. The little angels got to sing Away in a Manger. Emma was very excited about being an angel. She was telling everybody before the play that she was going to be The angel in the Christmas play. Last night after the play she told me she wanted to be Mary next year. I told her that she has to be a little older to be Mary, she wasn't very happy. So when we got home last night she made Andy and Maggie put on a play with her. Emma was Mary, and was Joseph, Maggie was a sheep, and a doll was Jesus. Maggie kept crawling into the box that was the manger. Andy asked Emma if Maggie could be baby Jesus. Emma said "No Dad she is a girl Jesus is a boy". By the end of the night Maggie was an Angel. When the play was over Emma told Andy that they should do it again, but he could be Mary this time.

I don't know about all of you, but my kids are very ready for Christmas. Emma can't wait to meet with all the family eat cookies and open gifts. Today we had a huge box come to our house. Emma had to know what was in the box so I opened it and there was two really big gift bags. One for Emma, one for Maggie. Emma started dancing around yelling can I open it, please, please. I thought to myself if they don't get to open these gifts I am not going to hear the end of it. I called Andy and he felt the same way I did, who cares it's one gift. Plus this way we don't have to take the gift with us and then bring it back again. Anyway as I hung up the phone Maggie was pulling paper out of her gift. I spent the next hour getting toys out of their packages, and try to keep the girls from exploding with excitement. I can't even imagine what Christmas day is going to be like. It should be fun.