Countdown to Christmas – Day 18

Today our Advent Activity was to sing Christmas carols. Coincided nicely with rehearsal for tomorrow’s children’s program at church :)

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Daily Photo – December 17th

Playing with the magnifying glass

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Countdown to Christmas – Day 17

We’re still enjoying our Advent Activity every day. I’m enjoying that some of the days I just improvise what it says instead of following our “plan”. It’s a lot less work for me that way :)

Today we played this Christmas game that I originally found from The Activity Mom. Kahlen enjoyed it, especially because she won. She was being very female today, had lots of emotions about doing her schoolwork and anything else I asked her to do. Henceforth, we only played once. Maybe I can get her to play again with daddy :)

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Daily Photo – December 16th

For yesterday.

What I’ve been working on for the last week:

Go here for the tutorial if you want to make your own.

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Countdown to Christmas – Day 16

Was too busy doing our Advent Activity to post about it yesterday :)

We made “gingerbread” houses with some friends. 5 kids, 3 moms, and a lot of sugar (4 were made, one of the kiddos decided that it was an icky project. Can’t imagine not wanting to play with candy and more candy, but okay, can’t really debate that with a 2-year-old)

The supplies:

 

The process:   

The result:

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Wordless Wednesday/Daily Photo – December 15th

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Countdown to Christmas – Day 15

Today for our Advent Activity we we went to the mall and looked at the pretty decorations. They have a big tree with three electric trains that circle the base and also a fun mechanical metal-ball-droppy-thingy (know what I’m talking about??). No pictures, because the camera was buried in the bottom of the stroller. They did have a good time though. We met friends there, had lunch, and played at the playland too.

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