Careful what you say…

Sunday night was Maddy’s big singing debut at church. As part of the Christmas program, Maddy and other 3 year olds took the stage to sing two songs. That day, while I was helping her practice her songs, I mentioned to her that if she forgot her lines she should just start pushing the other kids, and at least Daddy would make some money on America’s Funniest Home Videos that way. I had NO CLUE she would really do it!

So, there we are, watching our little girl sing, when she starts poking at her friend standing next to her. Maddy was upset because her friend wouldn’t hold hands with her, and her friend just wanted to do the actions that their teacher had taught them. Maddy turns, and, to my horror, pushes her friend. Her friend then falls into the next kid, and so on down the line. I think she took out about 4-5 kids total, though we may never know because some man stood up in the front to get a picture and blocked not only my video, but also the view of everyone behind him. (Side note here: why do people think they have the right to stand up in front of everyone else at these things and get their kids picture? Do what everyone else did…stand in the back or on the sides.)

Anyway, I have a pretty good shot of Maddy pushing her friend (as you see in the screen cap here. She’s the one on the bottom right in the red dress) and a decent shot of the kids falling down. The whole thing was met with riotous laughter, which made Maddy smile very big. After the concert we attempted to scold her for knocking the kids over, and she replied, “But Mommy, all the people on the front row thought it was funny.”

So…be careful what you say in the presence of little ones…and be watching AFV soon, I plan to send this tape in tomorrow!

Oh my…

Ok, I stole this from Marko’s blog, but it was too good to pass up.

Imagine if you had this name.

Ouch!

Dance, Dance Jesus…

Isn’t it funny how few truly original things come out of the Christian faith? I mean, Jesus broke the mold in every way…and we Christians seem content to simply borrow the secular world’s molds over and over…with our own catchy tag lines of course!

Enter “Dance Praise” …

Forget about your kids wanting to boogie to the Black Eyed Peas, now all the cool Christian kids will be getting down to the sweet sweet sounds of my boy Steven Curtis Chapman. That’s right, all you have to do is buy Dance Praise at your local Christian bookstore, plug the dance pad into your USB port on your computer, load the software, and then dance all night to the sweet sound of SC2 and other christian artists.

Ok, so to be fair, Andy Hunter is on there, along with DJ Maj and a couple other truly dancable songs…but the real question is, what was so wrong with Dance Dance Revolution, and why do we keep imitating everything?

Yo Quero Jesus?