Pictures of G in his reindeer shirt

 Laughing at his brother

The Rest of Our Advent Activities

I didn't do as good of a job keeping up with my advent activities, but I have pictures of most of them.  I am going to have to work on releasing some control of these activities and let him do them the way he wants to.  I think that should be one of my New Year's resolutions: letting him do things his own way instead of the way I think they should be done.  I am going to turn him into Monk if I am not careful.

This is the first time he has taken a real bubble bath. 

Coloring a Christmas picture

Who doesn't need a loader to color

We built this house

He played with the extra pieces

then turned it into a demolition site

made marshmallow snowmen

you have to eat at least one

painting suncatchers

making sugar cone Christmas trees

Bubble print snowmen

Decorating Christmas cookies

Coloring a Christmas puzzle and mug

Making glitter play dough

We did a couple of others things but I didn't take pictures or they are on my phone.  I am sure I had more fun with this than D did, but I will do it again next year.

Elf Week 3 and 4

I am so far behind and I have no idea if I will ever catch up.  Thankfully I have my handy calender that I wrote all of my elf activities on so I can remember what he did in what week.  

 Coloring a Christmas

 Trying to help clean the house

 Reading a Christmas book

 Stuck in the tree

 Candyland with friends

 Snowball fight

 Marshmallow snowman

 M&M message

 

Made his own sleigh

Crepe paper on D's door 

 He was not happy about it.

 Got into G's diapers

Had himself a snack

I forgot a couple of days but he didn't notice.  I had fun with our elf friend and I am actually looking forward to it next year.  I am hoping in a couple of years that little G will be into our elf also, maybe even more than D. 

Look what we started today

He does things the hard way but he gets where he wants to go.  

He also finally got a tooth today.  He has had a big day.

Advent Calander

I have a friend that made an advent calendar for her boys last year.  I wanted to do one for D and she inspired me to actually get it done.  Thanks Heather.  D and I have been doing it everyday and he is as excited about this as he is about the elf.  He pretty much just plays along with me on this also.  I  made it out of socks.  The one that I saw on pinterest was made out of baby socks but I couldn't find that many baby socks.  I got most of my socks from the dollar section at Target and the dollar store.  I just got whatever sizes they had.  I thin it turned out okay.  The socks didn't end up in the order I have envisioned because I sewed them on the ribbon wrong and I was too lazy to take them off and start over.  It serves the purpose and looks cute hanging on my wall. I didn't take a picture of it after I put all of the activity cards in it. I should try to do that just so I remember what it looks like for next year.  I just wrote them on paper and put a little piece of ribbon on the back to pull them out of the sock.  I will try to take a picture of it soon.

 The first day we read the story of Jesus' birth in the bible and the second day we wrote a letter to Santa.  He also "helped" me wrap presents one day.  I didn't take pictures of those things.  

Doing Christmas craft.  He doesn't really care to follow the directions and if he does follow the directions he goes and takes it apart later.  I guess it doesn't matter as long as he has fun but it is a little hard on my OCD.

 Making popcorn.  This kid loves popcorn.  It might have something to do with Grumpy.

 Making bead candy canes.  He really just wanted to play with the beads.

 Having a picnic by the Christmas tree

 G was just excited to get this close to the tree.

 Having hot chocolate.  He got to add the marshmallows himself.  He left all of them in the cup after the cocoa was gone. 

 I don't know why he is making this goofy face.