Kick off Christmas with Advent House

Well I guess Thanks to Annie we have found the easy way to keep this blog updated for all to enjoy! So now I can quickly recap our Christmas season with everyone.

 

This year we did advent gifts for Leighton. We bought an advent house and planned to stuff it with lots of little christmas things. Here is Leighton opening some of his advent gifts.

 

The problem with the "Little" gifts is that most things that would fit in the doors of the house aren't ok for babies. (candy and trinkets). Well so I have friends that wrap the gifts that are just to large and leave notes instead that direct to a present with a number for the day. So this would be our plan for the larger things.

 

When the Advent house arrived I was so excited only to realize that only a small piece of candy or jewelry(wink wink) could fit in tiny tiny cubbies behind the doors. Nothing I bought would fit even the Santa Rocks pacifer didn't fit! The house is so adorable that it is a great decoration and count down but I ended up having to wrap all the gifts and put them separately anyway!

 

By the way, most of the gifts that we gave were themed xmas like xmas books, or toys, bibs, pacifiers. It will be fun to build on but next year not so sure, I will get so many since I now know they won't fit into the house. My favorite advent gifts we gave him were the Christmas weebles!