The Living Nativity

On Monday night, our church hosted a Living Nativity scene. "With Live Animals!" the billboard read. I thought it might be fun to take Mia. To tell the truth, I wasn't at all certain Mia would like it, but I've been on the prowl for some other 1-year-olds looking for a play date and this seemed like a good place to troll for toddlers.

As it turned out, there were no eligible toddlers there, but Mia was quite captivated by the manger scene. When she saw the donkeys lying there on the ground chewing hay she said "Baaaa, baaa" like a lamb. Very cute, so I carried her over by the sheep and encouraged her to do it some more. One of the sheep was a ram with curly, sharp looking horns. (That's sharp not as in stylish, but as in puncture wound potential.) Of course, she was fascinated by those horns and kept reaching toward them. I encouraged her to pet the llama instead. She also liked the glittery robe one of the Wise People was wearing. The Wise Person noticed this and kindly stuck her arm out so Mia could touch it.

Unfortunately, it was too dark to be a photo op. Also, I didn't want to let Mia out of my arms fearing she might go for those horns.