"The Hulk" at Christmas

This is a video from Christmas Eve. Though it's out of season, it's well worth a viewing. First, a little explanation. Every Christmas Eve we do a program with both the Robertson's and the Coxes. The kids all have the opportunity to perform so, after seeing the movie "Frozen", I thought it would be cute to teach McKay and Benson a little dance to "In Summer", the song sung by Olaf the Snowman.

We practiced and practiced and the boys both had all the words and all the moves completely memorized. They even performed it at a local rest home a few days before Christmas. They were adorable performing together!

Well, the Cox family Christmas Eve program arrived and the boys were excited to perform. There were two microphones for kids singing and I guess McKay got it into his head that he wanted to use one of them. So, we gave McKay and Benson each a microphone. However, as the song began McKay realized that his microphone wasn't working. That's the back-story leading to his running off the stage right at the beginning of the song. We encouraged Benson to keep going, not expecting McKay to return...

Important aside: during December McKay was on a bit of a "Hulk Smash" kick. Whenever he would lose his temper he would say, "Now I'm the Hulk! I'm going to smash you!"

First of all, let it be noted that he's never seen any of the Hulk movies. For a while BJ would tell the boys about the superhero movies as part of a bedtime story, so McKay had heard the stories from Daddy.

In quieter moments I would try to reason with McKay. "McKay, it's not good to lose your temper. Even "The Hulk" learned to control is temper. At first he was naughty and would smash things but then he became a good guy and learned to control his anger."

"Yes, Mom but that was in the second movie. I'm only like the Hulk in the first movie."

With that in mind, have a look at the boys charming little Christmas Eve performance: