Nativity play

Tonight was "opening night" of the Christmas play at Susanna's school.  

The play is called The Little Fir Tree.  Three classes of kids were in the performance - Reception, Year 1 and Year 2.  So it was a big group of 4 to 7 year olds.

It was great!  All the kids were involved, and a lot of them had their own lines, or lines with one other child.  The youngest kids were divided into three groups (raindrops, snowflakes and sunbeams) and did group dances.  Year 1 kids did the nativity play, and the Year 2 kids had other parts relating to the Fir Tree.  The nativity was incorporated into the Fir Tree story.

Susanna was an innkeeper, and she stood with a boy and sang a couple of lines.  She did very well as did everyone else.  There were no real goofs and no one seemed too nervous.  There were many songs within the play and the kids sang them well.

Tonight was also the first night that we hired a babysitter.  Ben stayed home with her so that Brad and I could go together to see Susanna (and enjoy the mulled wine and mince pies they served before the show!)  She came highly recommended from a friend and Ben was fine.  We told her that Ben could stay up until we got home (around 8:15 - quite late for him!) but he didn't make it - he curled up on the couch with his blanket and just went to sleep.

Ben and I went to the matinee performance today, and there is one more show on Thursday evening.  Tomorrow night is a big Christmas street fair in town, so this is a busy week full of late nights!