  I haven't had a chance to write about this all week, but on Wednesday night Aidan was in his first ever Christmas pageant!
He was the donkey that accompanied little Mary and Joseph to Bethlehem, and he was really the Best Donkey Ever! He stole the show because he was so very much younger than the other kids and he looked so adorable in his little donkey costume. My mom's a pastor here in El Paso and when we arrived last weekend she asked if Aidan would like to be in the pageant.
I said sure, not thinking it would be anything too hard. It wasn't, in fact, it was so perfect for him that in addition to gymnastics, I'll probably be looking for a young theater troop to put him in this year! After the play he stayed on the stage playing all the other actor's parts. He'd stand on the tall stool like the narrator and talk in the mic, then he'd go to the lower mics that the little girl stars were at and talk in them.
He _loved_ it. Not even 3 years old, and he's already a star! I hate to say it, but that alone was such a good experience that it is almost reason enough for us to swallow all our problems with organized religion and go to church! 
