Away in a manger

On the one morning we were actually running ahead of schedule, we were rewarded with a live nativity set up in the church parking lot. While there was some initial hesitation on the part of her dad about letting Abby touch the stinky wet animals (a slight drizzle does make for a smelly manger scene) Abby's excitement and my impulsiveness won out.

Since we've not yet introduced goats or burros into her vocabulary, all the animals present at this particular recreation of Jesus' birth were sheep to Abby. After petting both sheep and greeting them with a resounding "baaaaaa!" she proceeded to wander around to all the other animals and greet them in similar fashion, unfazed by the fact that some of the "sheep" had horns and others looked a lot like donkeys. To her credit, they did all smell the same.

Church should always be this much fun...