The Mouse Family Blog

We had gotten an email in advance letting us know about the Christmas celebration that the kids staff of our church had organized. In addition to fun crafts and lessons about Jesus' birth during Sunday school, there was going to be a live nativity with Mary, Joseph, baby Jesus and...

SHEEP!

Lauren loves sheep. She loves her "sheepy" stuffed animal, loves saying "baaa!" and loves pointing out sheep in books, etc. So the whole ride to church we talked about meeting the real sheep. Lauren was very excited about this and stated that she was going to, among other things, hold sheepy's hand. She obviously wasn't factoring in that real sheep are bigger than she is.

As you can guess, she was pretty shy of the sheep when we got close and needed to be clinging to mommy or daddy to get near them. She didn't even venture out a hand for a tentative pat. But the minute we said goodbye to the sheep and walked away she was asking for them again. Maybe there will be petting next year.