Nativity!

We appear to be hurtling towards Christmas at the moment. The nature of my job makes December the busiest time of the year for me. The same can be said for the hubbie - more due to social fun than workload but it all compacts. And so it was that I turned up at Bean’s Early Years Christmas Show without having given two thoughts the what I was walking into. 

The nature of Bean, is that he’s been a bit quiet about the play. We’ve talked a lot about baby Jesus recently and how much love he has for Baby Jesus and we’ve talked about the first Christmas and that his teacher had been to Bethlehem and it’s a real actual place on this world - which is confusing for a four year old trying to make sense of god, heaven and things that happened 2,000 years ago. But despite all this chat I just hadn’t thought about his play to the extent I was busy on my laptop answering work emails minutes before he walked in.  

  

Oh my goodness did that little boy blow me away today. I know I am stupidly biased but he was the cutest shepherd, so cute I didn’t even notice him when he walked in. 

He takes his seat, looks about for my mum and I (eager fans that we are sitting in the front row) and after a smile we get him wiggling his eyebrows at us before deciding (having been told by Alby that he shouldn’t wave) that the best way to address your audience is by giving them a wink. 

Having my 4 year old dressed as a shepherd and winking at me completely disarmed me. Little smasher. My heart swelled. 

And then he did brilliantly.  I’d been to his class assembly recently and he did good but definitely got bored half way through and just stopped singing and started looking around. Today he sang every song all the way through, actions attempted perfectly (which may not sound impressive but there were a lot of songs) and he even sang so confidently you could pick his voice out from amongst the other children. 

Bug has always been loud and proud. I remember his Reception school assemblies and you could hear him above the sixty other children (not necessarily in tune but at that age your just told to be loud). This time last year he was the main part in his school play. I never got round to writing a post about it because I didn’t know where to start. He practiced his lines (and there were a lot of lines) every day for six weeks. We had emails from his teachers saying how well he was doing and bar one missed cue, he did a great job two days in a row. The play was meant to be ‘The Bossy Christmas Fairy’ but they changed it to Bossy Star because they knew they wanted Bug in the role but aren’t quite liberal enough to make a boy a fairy. 

 Bean is a different boy. He’s my little, cheeky, oh so easily distracted boy. He can be shy and is quick to claim that he’s too tired to feed himself, walk, brush his teeth, get dressed.... and then charge around like an idiot the minute you’ve helped him with the task. Where Bug has always really cared about pleasing people, Bean seems to have accepted he can’t be as quick or clever as his brother so why bother wasting his energy trying?

As a Ninjago fan he often talks about needing to reach his full potential.  Today, his class did brilliantly and he did too. He did his class and his teacher proud. He showed all of us how smart and attentive he can be when he wants to - something we don’t always get to see. He had a great time and I finish my day with my heart swelling!