When Jon was growing up one way that his parents taught their kids the Bible was by acting out scenes as a family. (Sometime ask Jon about acting out 1 Samuel 24 while on vacation in the mountains.) Anyway, one of the Biblical stories Jon's family acted out was Luke 2 (the events surrounding Jesus' birth) and now that Nate is old enough to understand it we are going to incorporate that into our celebration as well. So last night at dinner Jon was talking to Nate about it, asking him who was going to play certain characters, etc.
Jon: Who is going to play King Herod?
Nate: Me! I want to.
Jon: What does King Herod say?
Nate: Tell me where this child is, I want to go worship him!
Jon: But does he really want to do that?
Nate: No, he wants to kill him. (Wow, his Sunday School teacher is doing her job!)
(about 5-10 minutes later)
Nate: Mommy, what does 'kill' mean?
Me: 'Q' is a letter, Nate.
Nate: No, KILL.
(Jon laughing because he thought I was trying to get out of the question but I really just didn't hear him, I swear.)
Me: Oh. Ohhhh. Well, Nate, 'kill' is when someone does something to someone else that makes them die.
Nate: Oh.
Me: It is very, very, very naughty. In fact it is the worst kind of naughty.
Nate (quietly, looking kind of upset): I'll just be a wise man.
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