Bablical Bibble

Every evening, the 4 year old get s a night night story. Most of the time, if she chooses a long story, I can still madlib my way through it (managing to stick a few pages together) so long as she doesn’t notice. On a really good night, she will choose the shortest story ever, and I am done in a jiffy.
Recently, the 4 year old picked out a book at the store that served several needs. It was a children’s Bible. It was intended to help those learning to read, but it works as a regular story book all the same. It has wonderful pictures, and about 4 to 5 sentences per story BONUS!! Out of a guilty conscience, I agreed to read two stories (of her choice) when she chooses this book. Her process of elimination is very predictable. She loves babies and animals. Therefore, if there is a picture of a baby or an animal, she will stop on that story. Out of the 2 months that we have had the book, she has only asked me to read “The Story of Moses”, “Daniel and the Lion’s Den”, and “The Story of Baby Jesus”.
Tonight, I was primed and ready for all of those little “why?” questions. For instance,
“Why did Moses’ mother put him in a basket in the river?”
“Because he was in danger, of course.” Although in today’s time, someone would have most certainly called CPS on her for that.
After the story of Moses, she went straight to an old favorite, the Story of Baby Jesus. I read through the five or six simple sentences. It didn’t even use the words “Wise Men” or “ Magi”. It just said “Kings from the East brought him gifts.”
“Why did they take that to him?” she asked.
“What?”
“Those gifts,” she pointed to the shiny stuff in the picture.
“That’s gold, frankincense, and myrrh.” I explained.
“Why would they give that to him?”
“I guess because they were expensive gifts???”
“But those are breakable!” she said. “They should not have given those to him!”