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“If you get caught up in the worst case scenario and it doesn’t happen, you’ve wasted your time. And if you are caught up in the worst case scenario and it does happen, you’ve lived it twice.” -Michael J. Fox

12.22.2016

Holiday list part 2

We have continued to stay busy with holiday events since my first post.

CP found a non-religious advent calendar and Izzy has enjoyed opening the drawers every day. We also do Elf on the Shelf and have so far only forgotten to move "Sprinkles" once (CP ran downstairs just in time to do it).

Of course we had to go see Santa. When he asked Izzy what she wanted for Christmas she said, "May I please have a Elsa present?" (We had been prepping her that she had to say please and what she wanted to say to Santa beforehand.) He then asked, "Anything else?" and Izzy didn't have an answer for that because she had only thought of "Elsa present." LOL.


Santa- I know him!
While there you could write a letter to Santa so CP made some dotted letters so that Izzy could trace them for her letter. As you can see he was lazy in how many dotted letters he wanted to make... :-)


Tracing over CP's dotted letters

It says "Dear Santa, Elsa. (Heart) Izzy. LOL. The semi-straight lines halfway down the page are Izzy's "letters" if she isn't tracing real letters. :-)

There was also a booth where kids could get an Elsa or Anna braid in their hair. Izzy was patient but very excited. We are still finding glitter in her hair and it is almost two weeks later....





Finally, we made a gingerbread house with my mom. I was lazy and bought a kit at Michael's but it ended up being perfect because all Izzy needed to do was to decorate the house. I also bought Skittles and gummy bears to add to the supplies for the house (couldn't find any gumdrops).




I think that the only thing that we have missed this year is to go see lots of Christmas lights but we still have a few days left!

4 comments:

Risa said...

Yay! So many Christmas things! That's a really good idea to dot letters for her to trace. I like it. And these pictures are just adorable.

Syl said...

We found a train last year at Rite Aid that has nothing religious about it and has 25 cabinets, they are pretty tiny but this year we turned some things into a scavenger hunt where "Santa" left a note telling Oliver where to look for a gift. We also got 2 Lego advent calendars this year, he's 6 and loves it, one Star Wars and one Lego City.

Feisty Harriet said...

Gingerbread houses are my favorite!!

xox

Amber said...

I can barely get my two to hold a pen correctly, let alone trace letters! I'm super impressed (and motivated to keep working on it). I love seeing all your Christmas activities. It was so much fun this year with three year olds!