Day 6: Six Small Presents

Day 6 - I was kinda lacking creativity and energy today.  Also, I had promised the boys we'd do the advent first thing in the morning.  Now those of you who are morning people (please tell me your secret) are probably not impressed, but I am most definitely a night owl, not a morning person, so this was a big deal.  We usually do the advent activity in the afternoon or evening.  After I've had my coffee, hot shower, and a few hours to wake up.

I decided that we'd have them open six small presents that were mostly easy craft projects for the boys to do.  Also, I should admit that 3 of the items were bought at walgreens the night before for .39 cents (a Christmas puzzle, a spongebob activity pad, a snickers nutcracker for each of the boys).  The 3 crafts I had gotten back in November from Target's dollar spot (a snowman craft, a sticker decoration kit, and a paper chain craft). 

They each had a pile of 6 individually wrapped presents that they tore into when they were given the go ahead.

Woah...what did you get?

The boys oohhed and aahhed over the presents.  Confession: I let them eat the Snickers when they opened it at 8:20 in the morning.  Its not that much different than a donut, right?

Then they worked on their crafts.

I bought them kits at Target.  Aaron decorated a giant gingerbread man, James got a gingerbread house and Andrew was given a Christmas tree.  Their second art project was a countdown snowman.  We didn't have enough time to get this project done before we had to leave for our activities.  Aaron was devastated, so I told him that he could do the project as soon as we got home from school.

On Thursdays, Aaron goes to preschool at 10 am and then I take the twins to the clinic in Arlington Heights for there speech and OT services.  My friend Yvonne usually picks Aaron up for me since I cannot get back in time and then I pick him up about 20 minutes later.  Today she offered for him to stay the afternoon and play with her daughter Jenna (which he LOVES to do) but he declined in order to get home and finish his snowman craft.It had 24 circles on his body and you were suppose to glue one white pom pom each day of the month. Instead, I had the boys glue them all at once.  The twins made a game out of it finding the correct number to do it in order.  Aaron just went with the flow and glued in random order.  I had no idea that the boys would be so into crafts this year.