After effects - issues

Hello,
I'm working in after effects cs6. Here in the first screenshot of my composition window. Each one of the images scalle up towards the screen and then scales down back to it's orginal position. Then another one does the same.
My issue is if you look at screenshot 2, you see the image in the top left corner is showing over the larger image. How do I move the smaller images behind the larger image?
Thank you for any advice.

Here's a screenshot, but it's looks a little different from when I asked my origianal question. I split the layers and arranged them to get rid of the smaller images from showing.
Before I did it they way you see it in the screenshot. Basically all the color coded layers which are in set's of 4 was how it looked and they streched the whole timeline. Where now they are split apart.
The layers titled slideshow1-8 is the moving objects
But if I had the 3d layers working like I wanted, then I could have skipped on adding those layers colored in gold closer to the bottom.
Makes sense?

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