We decorated the tree! Yeah!! The house is already decorated, but it's taken us a couple of days to get to the tree. Nick likes to let everyone know we have a fake tree. I still can't believe we went the fake tree route, but with our Christmas schedule, it really does make more sense.
Before
A brand new ornament. Grandma and Grandpa sent Nick this pirate ornament this year, and he loves it!
Mommy and Daddy thought it should be a bit higher, to make sure it stays safe from B and the animals. By the end of the night, Nick was just backing into Erik with his hands up waiting to be lifted to put the breakable ornaments up high. It was pretty funny. I wish I could've gotten a picture of that.
Hanging some more ornaments. I love the pictures of Erik lifting Nick to hang them.
All done!
Opening our Christmas Countdown / Advent Boxes
This year we're doing two sets, we're doing our regular boxes, but we're also doing a lego advent calendar.
Opening box 1
Not quite what he was expecting (although he'd tell you differently). Usually we've tucked candy and fruit treats in them, but this year we decided to buy a lego set and split it amongst the boxes. Erik went through the instruction book and put them in in the order they get added so we can build the set as the month goes on. We haven't told Nick that's what we're doing yet though, he'll figure it out soon enough.
SOOOO excited, he's been waiting for "10 days" to do this... which is pretty close, it's been about a week, and he's almost driven us crazy waiting.
Opening the door.
Today was a minifigure and some little white, "snowballs" (single legos)
And a new tradition. For years I've been wanting to start a tradition where we read a different Christmas book each night until Christmas. After seeing someone else doing it, I finally decided to get us started. Tonight we read Polar Express.
Listening to the story, and oh so sleepy.
No comments:
Post a Comment