On December 1, our activity was to make paper snowflakes and talk about the Christmas story.
Cutting out snowflakes with Daddy
She hung all of her snowflakes in her bedroom windows as decorations.
For bedtime, we read Jane Ray's The Nativity, which came with a paper doll nativity set. Last year, Avonlea Jane knew that Christmas was the birthday of baby Jesus and Jesus was the son of God and Mary. This year, we tried to explain the whole story, though we're a long ways off from her comprehending the trinity.The Christmas story is something we're so familiar with that we'd never thought about how difficult it would be to understand as a child. Avonlea Jane was full of questions. Why didn't anyone give up their rooms? What about the innkeeper's room? Did Jesus have diapers in the barn? Why would King Herod want to kill a baby? How can a baby be a king? Will those other kings try to kill the baby? Jesus has two daddies? Why didn't God hold the baby and play with him? So God wasn't a very good daddy? Do angels have bones?
She finally got all of the major elements down, but it made us realize that explaining Easter may need to wait a while.
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