-Grace enjoyed helping decorate our tree and hearing the different stories about her ornaments. (We give the girls one each year)
-Having family movie nights. We did a movie night & made "hot" chocolate. Grace got to try it for the first time. One night we watched the Muppets Christmas Special on TV. Jeremy loved the Muppets when he was little and Grace does too. My favorite comment, "Where did the waubi go?" She doesn't know what a comerical is, we only watch movies & the Disney channel.
-Making special homemade Christmas gifts. This year we were "green" and made reusable shopping bags for the grandmas.
-Grace was so excited about the snow. She wanted to go sledding. She also made a snow angel.
-We made a Birthday cake for Jesus. Faith checks out Baby Jesus on top.
-For the second year we made cookies for our neighbors. This year we all bundled up as a family to deliver them. It was freezing outside (literally, the temperature that night was in the teens!)
-Each year I have expanded my candy making. This year we made Tiger Butter, Peanut Butter Balls, Toffee, & Christmas "Buttons." Grace made the buttons herself.
-One night we all loaded in the car in our pj's with blankets and went to look at Christmas lights. The girls both enjoyed this. We went out to Mark Twain Cave to drive through the lights display.
-Reading LOTS of Christmas books. We have a collection of Christmas themed books we only get out at Christmas time.
-Grace was so excited about the snow. She wanted to go sledding. She also made a snow angel.
-We made a Birthday cake for Jesus. Faith checks out Baby Jesus on top.
-For the second year we made cookies for our neighbors. This year we all bundled up as a family to deliver them. It was freezing outside (literally, the temperature that night was in the teens!)
-Each year I have expanded my candy making. This year we made Tiger Butter, Peanut Butter Balls, Toffee, & Christmas "Buttons." Grace made the buttons herself.
-One night we all loaded in the car in our pj's with blankets and went to look at Christmas lights. The girls both enjoyed this. We went out to Mark Twain Cave to drive through the lights display.
-Reading LOTS of Christmas books. We have a collection of Christmas themed books we only get out at Christmas time.I LOVED having so much family time in December. It was a lot of fun seeing both the girls enjoy some of the same things Jeremy and I did as kids. I am looking forward to having a little more time to do all these fun things next year (Since we were gone for 5 days in December this year). And I am hoping to add some type of Advent/Countdown activity to our celebration. More on Christmas soon...