I grew up with many traditions and I am a sucker for traditions. We would open one present on Christmas Eve. That night my sisters and I would sleep in one bedroom. I wouldn't sleep a wink. Usually around 5am, I would rouse my youngest sister, Jaclyn so that we could start working on our oldest sister, Jacy. We couldn't get up until 6am, per my parents. Jacy HATED getting up early. She would even try to change the clocks, so she could sleep in. At 6am we would get my parents up and my dad would drop a penny down the stairs to let Santa know we were coming. Then he would go down stairs and make sure Santa was gone. We would all go down stairs and start opening our stocking stuffers while my parents got their coffee! Then we would rip open our presents and were usually done within 30 minutes. It was always done so fast, but we got to enjoy our presents the rest of the day.
I want to start some traditions in our family. I definitely think we will still open one present on Christmas Eve. I hope that when Noah and Ava get older, they will want to sleep in one room on Christmas Eve. Hopefully we will start some new ones. I would like to try the Elf on the Shelf thing, which means I have to get one the day after Thanksgiving.
We have been using the "Santa is watching you" thing with Ava lately. I know, bad mama! But it seems to work. Every night before she goes to bed, I tell her she has to sleep through the night because Santa is watching. (More on this sleeping thing later!!)
Santa told me that he was getting Ava the Loving Family Dollhouse this year, so if anyone out there wants to buy rooms to fill it up. We have already gotten the Laundry Room, Living Room and Dining Room. For those that read that are family, here are some other ideas for Ava. Play-doh things. She has some play-doh, but she would like the maker things. She would like some costume jewelry, an age appropriate laptop (I think V-tech makes some), stickers, Dora stuff, books that are stories, games (I think she will be ready to play some of the younger games soon) and toys that are for 3+ years. For clothes, she is in a 4T top and 3T bottom. She is a 7.5-8 shoe.
As for Noah, he needs 24 month fall clothes. Carters is always nice. 2T PJ's. He loves cars. He likes anything that he has to do things with. He loves to open and close things, push buttons etc. He doesn't need a lot. We aren't getting him a lot this year because basically anything that he gets is really Ava's. He needs things he will grow into, so 18 month toys. Also, don't forget his birthday is just around the corner too!
Not sure when we are going to get our tree this year. I know that Noah will be all over it! He is way more curious than Ava ever was. I know he is going to get all the ornaments and try to climb up it and get into the water. We might have to wait until the weekend before Christmas. That makes me sad, because we used to get it the weekend of Thanksgiving, but I just can't follow him around 24/7!!
The other day, I was trying to take pictures for our Christmas card and this is what I got. If I can't get any better ones, you may just see this coming to you....
We had the tradition of opening a present the night before too. I'm totally going to continue that one. Usually it was pjs. Love the penny down the stairs! If we had stairs I would do that one too. BTW, is Noah going into 2T clothes??? That's crazy! I need to get a picture of him and Kylie next time!
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