Nia's nativity

Today I was packing up toys since we're moving to our bigger house very soon. (Tuesday-- woot woot!) If you have kids then you are aware that packing up toys always makes children NEED the toys they haven't played with in FOREVER. So today the kids were playing with the Little People. Not as in the Roloff family, as in the Fisher Price toys.

Nia came to get me and showed me how she had set up the people as a nativity scene. She put a lot of thought into it. I mean sure, Jesus is an Asian kid with blue not-so-swaddled clothes. But she really set it up nicely.


She told me that she chose the "three kings" by choosing people that had something in their hands to offer the baby. And that the farmer was kind of like a shepherd. Sounded reasonable to me.

And, of course, being a Haitian missionary and mom, this made me beam with pride. Both at her Biblical thought processes and at her ability to degaje (make do.)

As I said, I was packing at the time and I had happened to know exactly where the Christmas boxes were and quickly located the play nativity scene for some more realistic play. (Because I like to crush my children's imaginations like that.) She was THRILLED. She played for a long time, acting out the whole Christmas story with the figures. She got a little hacked off that there wasn't an "Elizabeth" though.
I love this little girl. It's going to be sad when she doesn't want to be a little girl anymore.

PS-- I am not sure what is up with the outfit/headband. She told me it was her special Thanksgiving clothes. Sure. Why not? Nick, of course, had to take it too far and say, "actually Nia, I am pretty sure the Pilgrims wore dresses pretty similar to that... well, the well-dressed ones did anyway." She just rolled her eyes at him. Come to think of it, I think I did too...