The Pederson Family Blog: A STAR is born....

It was Tyler's first "official" church Christmas program this morning. After a few practices and memorizing his line he was ready. It was funny, Shane and I couldn't find him shortly after he got his costume on this morning. Here he was sitting in the front pew by himself patiently waiting for it to start. He was supposed to be with everyone else in the fellowship hall so he could walk in with everyone. I think he was sort of excited about it this year. It was pretty cute.

I said first "official," because last year he participated all through the dress rehearsal. He did so good last year too. He said his line just wonderful. Then it came down to the morning of and when we went to get his costume on he wouldn't put it on. He never gave any indication that he didn't want to do it. I think he maybe just realized what was going. That it was more than just rehearsal and got stage fright. He never would tell us why.

This year they did the Christmas Story in the eyes on a young girl going to bed at Christmas and her reflection on what Christmas is about. You will see part way through the pictures of a girl in a bed. Tyler was a cow in the Manger scene. All the preschoolers had an ornament that they said a speaking part about and put it on the Christmas tree. Tyler was a star. Weeks before during class he decorated his star with glitter and stickers for the program. Tyler's line was..."A star is a heavenly sign from long, long ago, shining hope for mankind." We were pretty proud of him. He said it loud and clear. I need to take the time and try to re-post a video clip on here, esp for grandma's and grandpa's to see. He/we got lots of complements. One of the teacher had to say, what a difference a year makes. I had a good chuckle over that.

We were the third row back and there was no getting around the back of the head shots, even when I half way stood up to take pictures. I need a bigger zoom.