the kids have really gotten into the advent calendar this year. and by that, i mean that if you are not watching otto like a hawk, he can be found grabbing all the ornaments out of all the little pockets of the calendar. i feel like such a scrooge asking him to leave them in the pockets, but isn't that the point?
greta and otto have a little tree, and each day one of them gets to find the ornament in that day's 'pocket' on the advent calendar and hang the ornament on the tree as we count down to christmas. they love it. they love everything about it. often they will stop and look at the ornaments already hung on the tree. greta likes to speculate which ornament is in which pocket, and i think (in a simple way) she gets that we are using the calendar to mark the time until christmas.
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I never put together that the definition of advent is "the arrival of something awaited" and that the Advent Calendar was the arrival of Jesus. Apparently, I'm slow. Greta is WAY ahead of me on this one.
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