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Christmas Traditions
do you have any christmas traditions that you started with your LO? we are looking to start one this year and looking for ideas. please share!
Re: Christmas Traditions
Every year on Christmas Eve we open 1 gift - Christmas pajamas. If you don't wear them, Santa won't come!
My parents and grandparents did this with me and my cousins growing up. It was always cute. As we all got older the pjs got crazier, but it was a tradition (adult sized reindeer zip up footie pajamas, etc).
I bought Elf on the SHelf last year, after XMAS for cheap. We are going to start it this year with J.
Ornaments. My mom gets me a Lenox Ornament every year and 1 Hallmark. I am doing the same with J and C, once old enough they will get their own mini trees (3ft) for their rooms with ornaments like my friend does with her kids.
Debating on when they are old enough (another thing I am taking from my friend) is they only will get 2-3 things from Santa and the rest from us that way I can wrap and put things under the tree as I buy them and then on XMAS morning they have ours and Santa's. WHY? They believe in Santa longer (the presents they get are exactly the ones they tell Santa when they are on his lap). Also the hiding doesn't have to take place.
I have an elf on the shelf, forgot all about it! I like the present thing.
Im going to start the Elf on a Shelf this year and read books. When he's older we'll do more. Id like to do an advent type thing and bake cookies for santa.
Im SO excited for Christmas this year with DS.
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We started a family tradition last year of going out and cutting down our x-mas tree. We also do the 1 gift on x-mas eve. Last year A and I baked cookies for santa & left them out for santa with milk & carrots (for rudolph). We read x-mas books & I do a days until x-mas countown also with A. He loves getting to change the number. Oh and x-mas eve we track santa online to see where he is. I also do an annual picture of A holding x-mas lights in the dark. It's sort of become a tradition with me. I started it his first x-mas when he was 8 months old.
This year I'm thinking of buying elf on the shelf. I'm also going to start labeling some of the gifts from "santa" since he now fully gets it. I'm having A write a letter to santa & you can drop it off at a mailbox near me and get a personalized response from Santa. Since he hates sitting on santa's lap I figured this was an easier way for him to tell Santa what he wants for x-mas.
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What's Elf on the Shelf? I googled and a Christmas activity books comes up. I'm guessing it's good? lol
When A is older....maybe next year, I will bake cookies with her every Christmas Eve to leave for santa. Open 1 gift Christmas eve before bed. Watch Christmas movies as a family.
Elf on the Shelf can be really involved if you let it - its a small elf doll that you place around the house during the day and at night it "reports" back to santa if you have been good or bad, and reappears the next day somewhere else in the house. That's labor intensive since half the time I don't have enough time to even eat dinner before I fall asleep! But I will probably set it up in our family room and have it watch K. It comes with the story book and everything.
Aww...that's actually really cute. Maybe I'll do that with A.
They have some really cute ideas on Pinterest for it too.
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