A few years ago my parents sent the kids a book containing the Christmas story and striking illustrations. The text is directly from Luke 2. They included with it a cd of my dad reading the story (and ringing a bell for the page turn signals). During the whole Advent season the kids listen to it over and over at home and in the car, following along in the book, and most of them have it pretty well memorized.
This year Nate wanted to recite it at the Christmas hymn sing we hosted. At the last minute he decided (although he had it down cold) he wanted to read it from the Bible. When it was time he hopped right up in front of 50 people and “read” the whole thing beautifully.
This part isn’t included in the clip, but after the final verse he automatically said “The End,” which is how my dad ends the recording. We had teased him before about remembering not to say this, so as soon as it slipped out he got a shy and disgruntled look on his face and sped to his seat.
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