Christmas: A Peek at Parker's Advent Calendar

While hanging the advent calendar...

Me: Parker, wanna touch it? 

Parker: I wanna touch it. *Reaches and touches the bottom*

Me: Ok, try to touch it again.

Parker: *Reaches but can't touch it. Gets on his tippy toes. Still can't touch it.* I wanna touch it!

Me: Ok babe, hang it there.

We're on day 3 of our countdown to Christmas and Parker is totally fascinated by the advent calendar Tuan and I have put together for him. He is dying to get his hands on day 4. I'm totally in love with the advent calendar too. After many conversations that went kind of like this

Me: I really need to start working on Parker's advent calendar. Why is it so hard to find wool felt in San Diego?? 

Tuan: Make it out of something else.

Me: But I don't have to have to bother with hemming all the edges. Man this is going to be an expensive project. Wool felt is really pricey.

Tuan: JUST BUY IT.

So I just swiped and bought it. Sometimes you just have to especially when the calendar is as beautiful and timeless as this Urban Pine one from Land of Nod. I love it. The quality is impeccable.

[Sorry for the craptastic pictures. The lighting in our bedroom is really bad.]

Each pocket is filled with a fun winter activity and a little treat. Almost everything is airplane or superhero themed and purchased at Target or Party City. I tried to coordinate the treat with the activity we would be doing that day.

Putting the activity list together was the hardest part. Here is what I put together after browsing Pinterest and checking out what would be happening around town in the month of December (in no particular order).

1.       Get Christmas Tree

2.       Hang the wreath

3.       Write Christmas Cards

4.       Collect pinecones

5.       Bake chocolate chip cookies

6.       December Nights at Balboa Park

7.       Visit Grandma & Grandpa

8.       Visit  a Christmas tree farm

9.       Watch a Christmas movie

10.   Set up the Nativity scene

11.   Read the Nativity story

12.   Decorate the tree

13.   Make Pinecone Christmas Trees

14.   Petco Park Winter Wonderland

15.   View Christmas lights in the neighborhood

16.   Make a snowglobe

17.   Wear new pajamas to bed

18.   Christmas dance party!!

19.   Build a marshmallow snowman

20.   Color a Christmas picture

21.   Hang mistletoe

22.   Drink hot cocoa

23.   Write a letter to someone and send it in the mail

24.   Buy candy canes and hang them around the house

25.   MERRY CHRISTMAS, Parker!