Fall of 2010 was the first chance Jack had to be in our church's Awana program. He is a Puggle and he LOVES it!! We can hardly get his Puggle shirt off of him on Sunday nights because he loves it so much!
This spring, the Puggles had the chance to sing a couple of songs during the Awana recognition program. It was Jack's "big church" debut! I (Jodi) was so nervous because I had no idea how he would react to being on stage. He is so active that I had visions of him being the one to catapult himself (or one of the other kids) off the stage. But he did great! He is a natural. He sang the words and did the motions and really seemed to enjoy it!
He did do something really funny though. When the kids went on stage, it took the teachers quite a while to get everyone situated. At one point, I completely lost sight of Jack and had no idea where he was. Turns out, he had made his way straight to the grand piano and was sitting on the bench. (He takes after his mommy!) One of the teachers managed to corral him back to where he needed to be. So funny!
Can you tell he's excited to be in "big church?" He was excited ... but he also wouldn't let me leave him with his class. I was afraid at first that he wasn't going to go on stage without me. But when the time came ... he let go of me without any trouble.
Trying to reign in a bit of his energy ...
Getting into position ... a little unsure of what this is all about
A photo of the whole group to give you an idea of what a major undertaking this was for the teachers ...
Singing and clapping his heart out!! This was after they finished their first song and the audience was clapping. Jack couldn't resist clapping too!
It was awesome! A HUGE thanks to Mr. Jeff and Mrs. Kristi (as well as all of their helpers) for such a great year of Puggles!
Jason got video of the whole thing. If we ever get it updated an uploaded to YouTube, we'll add it here.