Monday, December 08, 2008

Counting Down the Days!!

We're getting excited for Christmas here in our house!  Everyday we read LOTS of Christmas books with Brayden and he also goes around to all our advent calendars in the house!

We glue a cotton ball on Santa's beard...(which can be found here)
...hang a star on the tree...
...and we open one of these tins, eat the treat that we found in it, and then take the tin off...
...of this cute advent calendar I made this year!
My sister-in-law, Beth, and I started these calendars not too long after Christmas LAST year and I'm happy to say I had mine done and ready by December 3rd!  We worked on them off and on throughout the year and then I finally put it all together last week!  You can find the directions here...Split Coast Stampers Advent Calendar.

Even though we're counting down the days, Brayden really hasn't grasped the concept of it being "Christmas time" but it not being "Christmas Day" yet!  He's really trying to figure it out so hopefully he'll understand in a couple of weeks!  

2 comments:

Heather said...

You have SO many cute ideas! I love the tin advent calendar. I think I might try and make one. Thanks for the website!

Burton said...

Your advent calender turned out sooo cute! Im still working on mine, I guess we will use mine next year. And Bentley liked the santa one with the cotton balls, where did you find that one? Maybe It isn't too late to do that one this year. K so next week do you want to come over on Wed or Thursday?