Thursday, December 11, 2008

Ho Ho Ho!

It has become a tradition of ours to do a Christmas countdown every year. Some would call it an advent calendar, but since we're not religious it seems a little silly to do so. So ours is a Christmas countdown calendar! I bought a bunch of itty bitty stockings at the dollar store 3 Christmases ago and strung them on a rope with mini clothes pins numbered with the date. Usually the rope was tied up to a pole which traverses our livingroom archway, but I found that the more stockings the girls took down from one side, the more the other side sagged, so I cut the rope in half and hung it on a wall in our dining room instead. I put a few small pieces of candy, like one peanut butter cup each, or a couple of Kisses and a small handful of Skittles in them. Every third one also has a piece of paper in it with a number on it. When they open one of these stockings, they can open a small gift under the tree with that corresponding number written on it. The below 2 pics were shot this evening. It was Luci's turn to open the stocking, but Drew wanted in on the act, so I took a picture of her "faking it" taking down the stocking as well.

These 3 shots were taken last night after they opened the #3 gift which happened to be a pair of Slinkies. Here they demonstrate the "walks down stairs, alone or in pairs" move. They also got Slinkies last year but never really got into them. This year they love them!


On Tuesday, we started our annual tradition of making gingerbread houses. They couldn't finish them before bedtime, so I promised they could the next day. Incidentally, the next day was a snow day so they had all day to finish them. Here's where they stopped on Tuesday night.
And here are their finished masterpieces!
You can NEVER have too much candy on a gingerbread house!!
And this last shot was taken today. Luci was watching Noggin and the next time I came out into the livingroom, this is what I saw! Too cute!

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