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After having been schooled in all things LEGO by my grandson Israel Fuller Figgins, I became addicted to them. My daughter Charmaine and her boys moved in with Samuel and I for a bit. I wanted to do something with each boy, and Israel loved LEGOs, so I bought LEGOs, and I am telling you, they are fun! I played LEGO with him everyday after school. When they moved out, I continued to build and make my own designs. It only makes sense that I should build a Nativity. (Just in case you are wondering what I did with her other son, Elijah,  I read. I hope that he remembers the times we read together after school and went outside and played on the swing set.) 

I always like portraying Jesus a little older when he is visited by the wise men. He was at least, a "child." 

A little history about Lego:

LEGO, plastic building-block toys that rose to massive popularity in the mid-20th century. It has been one of the most successful game brands in marketing history.

Lego blocks originated in the Billund, Denmark, workshop of Ole Kirk Christiansen, who began making wooden toys in 1932. Two years later he named his company LEGO after the Danish phrase legt godt ("play well"). In 1949 LEGO produced its first plastic brick, a precursor to its signature brick with interlocking studs on the top and tubes on the bottom. 

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