Fun All Month!

My homemade advent calendar.

Chandler and Watson rosy cheeked from our Live Nativity walk at Liberty Park. So sweet.

I decided Watson is old enough to get in the spirit of Christmas traditions. I thought it would be fun to focus on him for our daily advent to Christmas. Each day he gets to open a little envelope that has a special activity. Some of them we do as a family, others are just for him and me. He has been so excited to find out what will happen each day. I'm wondering if I need to do this every day of every month...Chandler has had fun with all of our excursions and some of the activities.

Our yearly gingerbread house project.

No, you can't eat the candy just yet!

One proud owner.

Our finished gingerbread neighborhood.

Watson's letter to Santa this year.

Watson loved our visit to Grand America to see the giant gingerbread house, visit the toy store and get a yummy cookie from the French bakery.

 I also decided to start a daily present opening of Christmas books. Luckily the library had plenty to help us count the 24 days before Christmas. Opening a book is one of the first things Watson does when he wakes each morning.