Advent

This is one of our advent calendars. The little doors open and each day we take out two papers. One with a bible verse about Christmas and one with our advent activity for that day. Here are some of the fun things we've been doing to make Christmas a month-long celebration of our Savior!

• Snowflake Lane in Bellevue (we did this three times already! it's sooooo fun!)
• The Lights of Christmas at Warm Beach Camp
• Candy Cane Lane in Seattle
• Bellevue Botanical Gardens D'lights
• Decorate our Trees (we are so Christmasy, we have two!)
• Put lights up on our own house
• Put up lights in the kids' rooms
• Set up Nativity scences and talk about Jesus' birth
• Drink eggnog and read Christmas books by the fire
• Make and decorate cookies for gifts
• Go see Santa and take pictures
• Make an ornament with our Cousin Ethan
• Make gingerbread houses with Ethan
• Go shopping with kids for gifts for each other
• Molbaks to see the poinsettia tree and have kringle
• Eat Candy canes
• Take a walk in our neighborhood to look at people's lights
• Deliver Christmas gifts to our neighbors
• Daddy dates and Mommy dates
• Wrap presents for family together
• Watch movies together: The Grinch, Charlie Brown's Christmas, It's a Wonderful Life
• Sleep out by the Christmas tree

Here is Clara's gingerbread house. These kits are only $10 at Costco.

The angel ornament project. We tried to replicate an ornament I made in BSF when I was 6. It was fun to make the same thing with Clara and Ethan.

Merry Christmas!

Two Months

Late again posting this but at least I took the picture on the right day. Henry looks a little dazed in this picture but he is really as sweet as can be. At two months he is sleeping 8-9 hours each night(some of the other children in this house [both will remain nameless] didn't sleep through the night till at least 6 months and one of them 9 months, so Henry is earning big brownie points with Mama in that area). He is smiling basically anytime someone looks at him and starting to make louder and louder sounds which resemble a "HEY!" followed by another one of his cute little smiles. At his 8 wk appointment he was 12 pounds, 3 ounces.