Nativity Star :-)

Today was Little Prince's second try at superstardom, through his school's Nativity Play. Last year as a nursery child, he was part of the chorus (the MOST active star on stage lol). This year he moved up the cast list and was KING "I give you Myrrh." Me and Mr Messy got there extra early and were sat on the front row to watch/photograph/video the monumentous event. You should have seen the disgusted looks we got from all the other parents arriving after us - well they should have got there earlier lol. Anyway, due to the fact that almost every parent/grandparent/aunt/uncle in the place had either a camera or a video, we had discussed earlier with school how they could disguise Little Prince. We decided that a beard might be a good addition to the costume - luckily Little Prince agreed!! Trouble is the beard was made for a child in an older class (playing Father Christmas) and was huge on Little Prince - it kept riding up his face and he had to hold onto it to see!! After all the parents had got seated the children entered and climbed onto the stage. Due to the above mentioned beard, Little Prince couldn't see where he was going and fell flat on his face almost squashing his box of Myrrh, which was all he was worried about. He then sat still for the whole of the performance (where required), sang all the songs with gusto and had a fairly feeble attempt at the actions. He delivered his present with typical boyish aplomb - tossing it casually down in front of the baby and muttering "I give you Myrrh" He seemed to have a big grin, but it was quite hard to tell under the beard lol. It has all been captured for posterity both on Mr Messy's camera (with expensive new image stabilising lens bought specially for the occasion) and our old but faithful video camera.