Kyle and I are one of "those" people who start listening to Christmas music the day after Halloween. We love the season and it always flies by far to quickly. Because we knew we were going out of town for Thanksgiving (and because of Kyle's busy schedule), we set up our tree, decorations and village the Sunday before Thanksgiving. This year Ikaika got to put the star on top of the tree. He was thrilled at the opportunity. Kyle had a blast setting up his village - we both love seeing the boys and Ka'imi's faces light up at the magic of it all. One of our Christmas traditions is to do a little Christmas activity everyday in December. We tuck it in our advent calendar and the boys have fun pulling it out to see what we are going to do that day. Here are some of the activities we are going to be doing : )
Decide on Our Gift to the Savior • Make Snowflakes • Make Gingerbread Houses • Write Letters to Santa • Reindeer Handprint and Footprint Craft • Dance to Christmas Music • Make Treats for neighbors • Learn a New Christmas Song • Have a Hot Chocolate Picnic • Read a Christmas Book Together • Create Prep&Landing Elves • Sing Christmas Songs • Make and Decorate Sugar Cookies • Go See Christmas Lights • Do Nativity Activity (color story) • Read and Discuss Christmas in America (Star Craft) • Visit the Sweet Tooth Fairy for Cupcakes • Make Santa Apples • String Popcorn and Cranberries • Do Nativity Play with Kids • Make Cookies for Santa • Hang Stockings • Read Luke 2 (watch video of Luke2)
We love the Christmas Season :)
2 comments:
I can tell from the pic how much Ikaika loved putting the star up and how fascinated Ka'imi was by the Christmas village and train.I always love your village Kyle and what a great Mommy you are Michele for doing all those fun things with the kids for Christmas. I need to be more like you. :)
P.S. your tree looks lovely :)
I love it too. Especially all the family traditions :)
ps- Your kids are getting so big!
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