"Mommy, I need Jesus!"

My family in Louisiana will really enjoy this story I am about to tell. They gave this little figurine to me when I was pregnant with Bit Bit and it has sat on the little table in her room since she was born. You can see that it is a baby in a carriage. I never even knew Mary Lindsey knew it existed until about a month ago. She and I were in her room and I was getting her dressed. She was laying on her changing table and she pointed up and behind me and said "Jesus!", "Mommy, I see Jesus!" I stood there and looked at her, and then I looked behind me and thought "what?" So I kept on getting her dressed thinking I was misunderstanding her. I really did not think that I was because she speaks very clearly these days. She continued to say, "mommy, Jesus!" So looked behind me thinking, "well, maybe she really does see Jesus." Then she said, "Mommy, Jesus cute!" I kind of laughed and I said, "yes, sweetie, Jesus is cute. Do you see Jesus?" She said yes and continued to point up to the corner of her room. So I picked her up and carried her across the room. She pointed up on top of her armoir in her room to this little figurine. So I got the figurine down and handed it to her. She said, "Jesus, he so cute!" We both began to laugh together as she held the figurine so sweetly. After a few minutes of thinking why she thought this was Jesus, it all began to make sense. Over Christmas, we had several nativity scenes at our house that she would play with and we would talk to her about the Christmas Story and how Jesus came to us as baby. We would sing happy birthday to baby Jesus and she would always hold the little baby Jesus figurines. I have come to learn now that any small plastic baby she sees, she automatically thinks is Jesus.
But what makes this story even more cute, is she will ask for this little figurine and want to play with it. She will out of the blue come up to me and say "Mommy, I need Jesus!" It is the cutest thing you have ever heard. I know at this point in time she has no idea of who Jesus is and what He has done for her. But I do pray even now that God is softening her heart to these very real truths that she really does need Jesus and that He loves her very much!