The Christmas Nativity

With Christmas coming, we figured it was time to get some decorations up. We recieved a little peoples nativity the first year we were married, so it is one of the first items i get out. As i pulled each piece out, i tried to expain who each person was to help teach Coleton the Story of Christ birth. As I got each out, i began to realize that Coleton wasnt paying much attention. Understanding that he is only 2 years old, i figured waiting another year to really explain it would be best.

A few days later, we got a phone call from an older lady in our ward who had an extra nativity she was not wanting and asked if we would be interested in it to which i replyed YES!! She brought it over and quickly we put it up. Since this one was alot more fragile then our little peoples nativity, i made sure to tell Coleton many times that he was not to touch any of the peices because they were so special. As Coleton watched, i took each peice out of the box placing the person or animal where it was suppose to be Coleton excitingly ran to his little people and brought me over the corresponding person. His little nativity was one that both the boys were free to play with but after explaining how special each of the items of our new nativity he began to realize that his nativity also needed to go up high for them to be safe. As i stood there thinking that it would look a little silly to have this beautiful nativity with the plastic people mixed in, i wondered if i should tell him to place his somewhere else but as that thought came to my mind i then realized what was happening. He had finally understood, at that moment, how important baby Jesus was in a small way and I was in fear of hurting that thought. So with each person, he was so proud to place them in their spot and though it may look a little rediculous it was a moment that I realized how important those little teaching moments are and how important it is to taking them.