Cosi's Christmas Dance

This year at Christmas, it was finally time for us to experience that parental rite of passage- the Christmas Pageant.  In our case, the girls of the church rehearsed weekly to prepare a dance for this past Sunday night's Church Variety Show.  We really weren't sure what Cosi was going to do once she got on stage, we just knew we wanted it on video.

To motivate her to go to the rehearsals, at some point April suggested that, after she danced, her Daddy might give her flowers.  Wow, did that ever work well.  Cosi talked about it almost every day: "My Daddy's going to give me flowers!"  Here she is in her angel outfit, holding her flowers:

The really sweet thing is that during the rest of the evening, Cosi slowly gave away most of her flowers to the other kids.  She even tried running on stage to give them to a monkey puppet that was telling the story of Christmas (he politely refused).  The remaining flowers are in a vase on a shelf, and Cosi is allowed to smell them any time she wants to.

And here is the video of the dance.  Our favorite part is when she notices a microphone and tries to talk into it.  And no, she's not supposed to be in the front row- she's supposed to be in the middle row.  But no choreography can contain Cosi...