But they're plastic, and when Rachel is sucking the head of the baby Jesus I feel much better that it's not some undetermined metal with the paint peeling off.
This year, however, a couple things happened to change our tradition:
1) Our friend Laurie gave us a "grown up" nativity set.
2) I received a "What God Wants For Christmas" nativity set from my MOPS group.
3) Rachel made a baby Jesus at her preschool, which looks suspiciously like a wooden chess piece wrapped in tissue lying in fresh straw.
We now have 3 nativity sets, plus pawn-piece Jesus, all competing for space. Rachel always seems to find the sets excellent toys and with good reason... I mean, what else is a 2 year old supposed to do with them? She usually takes the angel and baby Jesus and hides them somewhere in the house. At first, I considered this a huge leap in her cognitive abilities as it isn't Christmas yet; therefore, Jesus and the angel shouldn't really BE at the manger until the 25th. That is, until I saw some of the other things Rachel did with the nativity....
Baby Jesus Goes for a Ride with the Donkey... Mary and Joesph don't seem all that concerned, so I guess he's ok.
Mary Gets Kicked out of the StableJoseph kicks Mary to the roof. I'm not sure what's going on with him and the angel, but it doesn't look good...
Not Sure What They're All Looking At....but it's enthralling, whatever it is. It can't be the angel because she's passed out behind the food basket on the right side of the stable.
No, Mary. You can't have the baby. We need to have a long talk about the whole 'God made me pregnant' thing...This is the new, adult nativity from Laurie. It only has a few pieces. I think baby Jesus may need a readjustment in his manger. Either that, or Rachel's been sucking on his head.
What REALLY happens when an angel appears
Yes, that's Mary on top of Joseph. I'm just as confused as you are.
Anyway, Merry Christmas everyone. Hope you have a great holiday! :-)
Yes, that's Mary on top of Joseph. I'm just as confused as you are. 
4 comments:
cannot. stop. laughing. Did she really do all of those, or did you pose them? Because, really, some of them are pretty thoughtful.
Rachel honestly did all of those. I couldn't believe it either, which is why I took the pictures over the course of the last 2 weeks. :-)
When Brody first came over to mom and dad's for Christmas, he knocked all of the nativity characters over and yelled, "they're all dead!" This was in front of Grandma too. *sigh*
LOL. @Pooks- well, technically, they ARE all dead. Except for Jesus.
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