"Jesus, come back soon?!?"

The other night, Hannah and Rob were playing with the Resurrection Eggs that we got her the other day.  I saw them advertised in a Lifeway mailout, and thought they would be really neat to help teach her about Easter.  Each one has a little reminder in it about the story of Jesus' death and resurrection (ex: a small cross, a piece of white cloth, a crown of thorns, etc) to help you tell the story of Easter.  Not that we need help telling the story of Easter - it's really more that Hannah needs help paying attention to the story of Easter.  So, we got them.  And she loves them...

So, Rob and Hannah were playing with them the other night, and they got to the one that was empty (signifying the empty grave) and Rob went on and on about how Jesus isn't in there any more because He's alive and how great that is, etc.  Hannah kept asking "Where'd Jesus go?" and looking around in the box, like she was missing a piece to her new toy.  Rob kept telling her, "He's not in there, just like He wasn't in the grave any more because He was alive."  She kept asking "where'd Jesus go?" so finally he just answered with, "He went to heaven and He's there with God."

Her answer...with a worried look on her face - "Jesus come back soon?"

Rob: "I sure hope so, Hannah."

She then looked inside her egg again, to be sure He wasn't there, and looked at the front door and said really loudly, "JESUS, COME BACK SOON!"

I'm really glad that we got these eggs - they're kinda cheesy, but they are helping make Jesus real to her, even though I know she doesn't really understand yet.

On a side note, "be back soon?" is something that she says all the time. Everyday that Rob is at work and we are at home, she asks all day long, "Daddy back soon?"  When we have friends over and they have to leave to go home, she asks, "be back soon?"  She's such a social little person, she constantly wants lots of people at our house.  Maybe some of that is our fault, since we constantly have people at our house...