Tick, tock, tick, tock-

Oh, where did the time go??I swear that it feels just like yesterday that we were boarding a plane to come home from Portugal, but here it is over 3 months later! And, Christmas is just around the corner.
To mark each day of Avent as memorable, special, I took a cue from Sebrina and this year began doing a little something with Malía each day. These are all things that I either know Mal already enjoys, or new experiences that should prove fun. To mark each new day, she tears a window on a traditional Advent Calendar (sorry Seb, and MamaHuiHui ,there is no craftiness in this gal after 3pm! :) and then in the evening we have our special time together.

So far this week:

Dec 1st: Bath with Mama night and new book night (the tubby is always a hit, and not only do we get clean, but so does the floor, the rug, the... well, you get the picture! The book was about a pup that looks like ours Lost in the Snow and well, I think it gave her nightmares, even though he comes home safe and sound b/c she was up 9x that night.)
**don't even think about a pic for this one :)

Dec 2nd: Eat Out Anywhere Mal Chooses. (I drove around town and said, "do you want chicken? do you want pizza? etc as we passed restaurants, but when she saw those golden arches, look out! "Fwies!!!" was deafening and repeated about 30 times before we even parked. On the upside, she had every bit of a grilled cheese, all her fwies and 1/2 an apple juice. )

Dec 3: Play at the Park in the Almost Dark (see for yourselves :)

Dec 4th: Candlelight Dinner (where she decided that the candles had to be for her birthday and sang for herself at least 3x. And, where my homemade dinner went uneaten, but 2 stalks of celery and 1/2 an ice cream went to tummy land. I lit Enat's Memory Candle too, so that she could share in this with us.)








Tomorrow will be Christmas Movie and Popcorn Night, since she gets to stay up a little later (and b/c I am getting sick of the P'ince! :) and the next 19 days are undecided. Any suggestions?? :)