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  • Christmas is a lot of fun for most people but especially for kids.

  • Kids love Christmas, they love the presents, they love the candy canes, really mostly they love the presents.

  • But I wonder if they know why we celebrate this day.

  • So we went out on the street and we asked children to tell us the story of Christmas and we are pleased now to present the story of Christmas as told by kids.

  • Who was born on the first Christmas?

  • Jack.

  • Jack?

  • Who was Jack?

  • That little skeleton guy.

  • Little skeleton guy.

  • Who was the Virgin Mary?

  • She was God's, I mean she was Jesus' aunt.

  • His aunt.

  • And who was his cousin?

  • Mike.

  • Who was Joseph?

  • Joseph, he was, he got married to Mary but they got like, they didn't really want to be together so then they, she started to go with God.

  • Oh, on the side?

  • Did Joseph get mad?

  • Yeah.

  • Who was Joseph?

  • Joseph is Jesus' stepdad.

  • Okay, so the first Christmas was obviously a long time ago.

  • There's these two people and they were like in their bedrooms and this angel came to tell them that they were having a baby and they didn't have a home so they had to ride a camel.

  • And the three wise kings came to the stable and Mary and Joseph had a baby Jesus.

  • And then what did they do?

  • Um, Santa took baby Jesus to a tree and then they started to, they started to have like a little feast.

  • And what did the three wise men bring baby Jesus?

  • Um, frankincense and myrrh and gold.

  • What's frankincense?

  • Um.

  • What's myrrh?

  • I don't know.

  • What's gold?

  • Gold is gold.

  • Yeah, good.

  • What did the Virgin Mary do on the first Christmas?

  • Um, she left out cookies for Santa.

  • Did Santa love Mary's cookies?

  • Mm-hmm.

  • What kind of cookies were they?

  • Gingerbread.

  • What did Jesus do when he grew up?

  • He, uh, went to heaven.

  • What did he do before that?

  • God bless you.

  • He, he, he told everyone that he's, he's a miracle maker.

  • What kind of miracles have you seen?

  • There's only one.

  • It was today.

  • What happened?

  • I, I, I put a warm water napkin and I put it on this eye.

  • Was it this eye?

  • Which one?

  • This eye?

  • Because you see from the side it looks a little swollen?

  • Yeah.

  • It's a star.

  • Thanks, kids.

  • He's right, it is a star.

Christmas is a lot of fun for most people but especially for kids.

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