Jack's Big Christmas Show!

This year Jack got to participate in his Joy School Christmas show. He was an Inn Keeper again.  He loves this role because he gets to yell "no room!" Their first performance was at the Retirement Home and their second one was for the dads and extended family.

Here he is with his best bud Nathan.

You may be wondering why the Inn Keeper was sitting between Mary and Joseph... I was wondering the same thing.

But eventually they all came and sat down to sing their songs: Jingle Bells, In a Little Stable and the Best Present is the One You Give Away.

 And then Grace decided that she should perform too.

 I would say that we have a bit of a ham...

After this, they got to hand out cards to the guests that they had made for them.  At the time, I wasn't paying too much attention, but a few weeks later we went back to for craft time. Jack saw Bill in the hall way peeking in the craft room.  Jack moved all of the chairs out of the way and made him a space at the table. One of the ladies said hi to Bill and commented that he never comes in for craft time. And Bill said he had to come in because Jack had cleared a space for him. :) A little later, Bill's daughter-in-law came by and Jack was talking to them.  He told her his name and she said that he still has Jack's Christmas card in his room! How sweet is that? Anyway, Jack ended up helping Bill with his craft and got him all of the supplies and showed him how to make his gingerbread man.

Here's Jack showing off his masterpieces with some of the ladies.

And here are some pictures from the other show.
So many helping hands!

 Again, the inn keeper invited himself in between Mary and Joseph...

 

St. Jude Trike-A-Thon

The kids participated in their first official act of charity... The MOMS Club organized a trike-a-thon to benefit the children of St. Jude. Jack and Grace received a few donations and then rode like the wind! It's a wonderful program, if you are looking to organize an event for your pre-school group, this organization would be well worth your hard work. Best of all, the kids are helping kids! It was really easy and as a club we raised over $600.00! We have all the way until Friday, so if you want to contribute, there is still time! When I asked Jack what he thought about helping other kids that are sick, he said that "it's good." Then we told him that those kids don't have money to go to the doctor and he said "why?" (I told you Joy School has really got him thinking)! But it made me wish I was him! Especially when we received the bill for his MRI today - it sure made me grateful for our insurance and for Jeremey working to earn it. We're so lucky in so many ways and it's a blessing to be reminded of it. Anyway, when it comes down to it, he thought it was a big race and said over and over that HE was going to WIN! Lining up... Jack and Milan... always together... Jack and Lila, she's in Joy School... These kids rode and rode and rode and we finally had to stop them! It was amazing, not one of them stopped of even slowed down, I think it could have gone on forever! Time to celebrate with a picnic! And all of the MOMS! Yay! PS. Look for us in the Chino Hills Champion - I wrote my first press release! and more pictures are here...