Advent

All around the blogosphere there have been posts about advent book calendars so I thought we'd give it a try this year.  I gathered up the Christmas books we had and purchased some more with the help of Grandma Cece to get 24 books.  We started out with Elf on the Shelf and will end up with The Night Before Christmas.  It's been really fun opening a new book every night before bed. 

Some are obviously bigger hits than others, one of the favorites so far has been Merry Christmas Mom and

Dad:

And we can't forget about the favorite from last Christmas (or we might read it all year long....) A Pirate's Night Before Christmas: