Away in a Langer

For the past few weeks, we have been teaching Lia the story of Jesus Christ's birth during Family Home Evening.  From reading the scriptures, to watching a video, to coloring pictures, to playing with our nativity puppets, Lia has soaked it all up like a sponge and has learned quite a bit.  As a result, I jumped at the opportunity to take Lia up to my parent's church last night to see the 500 nativity sets that were on display.  After walking around the gym for quite some time, we ended up in the children's room where there was several sets that she could touch.  Lia thoroughly enjoyed playing with many of these, moving around the various pieces to her liking.  Afterwards, we took her through another room that showed the entire life of Christ through a beautiful display of pictures and objects.  Thanks to a life-size manger in this room, I was able to teach Lia about its purpose for animals and its significance in the nativity story.  This little lesson obviously stuck with her as she came up to me today with one of her dolls laying in an Easter basket and proudly announced, "This is baby Jesus laying in a langer."  So cute.  I just love sharing Christmas with this three-year old.

Lia hard at play with one of the children's nativity sets.

A happy girl enjoying the true reason for this season.