Sunday, December 13, 2009

Counting the days!

Now that we are pretty settled in our new home, Christmas excitement has completely taken over. To help C and R understand how many days we have to wait before the big day, we made a Christmas countdown paper chain. We love to make these; the last one we made was to count down the days before our trip to Disney World.

For this one, I gave R the green strips and C the red strips. They decorated their strips with Christmas stickers and then we made our chain.

The very first thing we do each morning is pull off one of the links and count the remaining links to see how many days are left. C pulls off the red links and R pulls off the green links. This is definitely a highlight of the morning!

5 comments:

Susana said...

Hanna did this and helped Joe make one too week before last. It's funny how excited they get to pull the link off each day, isn't it?

I love that picture of C!

Sherry said...

they look super excited! So glad you are settled in your new home!

Gidget Girl Reading said...

that is a fun morning activity! i bet they get more excited every day

Natalie PlanetSmarty said...

What a fun idea to split responsibilities between two kids. It must be a very special Christmas - first time in a new house.

Ticia said...

Sigh, I've got a Christmas countdown started and I think we're a week behind. I love the theory, but never get them done......