A preschool Christmas party (as boring as it sounds)

Jack's preschool Christmas party was last Friday. We have attended the past several years with Ellie and have always had fun. This year, with Ellie in Kindergarten, I went for Jack's party and Tom went to pick up Ellie from school. Jack has been singing "Bingle Bells" for weeks now so I knew he was excited about the party. But when I showed up, he started crying and insisted on sitting in my lap instead of joining the rest of the class for their performance. When it was time for Jingle Bells (Bingle Bells!), I was able to convince Jack to join the other kids, but as soon as I snapped his picture he was back in my lap.
I knew that decorating gingerbread houses would cheer him up.

But he was more into eating than decorating. I tried to put a few pieces of candy on his house and he got mad at me because he preferred the quicker method of eating straight from the bowl.

We ended up being the first to leave because I wanted the other kids at the table to have some candy to decorate their houses. The whole thing was actually quite stressful. I don't know why I am even documenting it except that I always documented Ellie's Christmas parties and I feel like poor Jack doesn't get enough blog-mention. Being Child #5 out of 7, I am very sensitive to that sort of thing!