25 Days of Christmas: Day 4

Have you ever heard the expression "today is the Mondayest Monday?"  Today was one of those days.  It was a whirlwind of a day with so much going on!

Despite the craziness, we can always look for the positives, right?  I got to visit Hermitage's ACE Center today, which I've never been to before.  We went into the Culinary Arts program, and I was so impressed to see them making pasta and crepes!  It was awesome, and I could tell our students visiting were really enjoying it!  Marshall continued celebrating his birthday today, by taking more cupcakes to daycare and share with his friends!  I took Marshall for his 2 year check-up today, and he took his shot like a champ!  We watched bits and pieces of Christmas movies this afternoon and evening, which brings me to day's Day of Christmas!

Two of the movies on this evening were classic Christmas movies: The Santa Clause, and The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause.  So, it was only fitting to read the book version of the 3rd movie in the trilogy!

Book #4: The Escape Clause

25 Days of Christmas: Days 2 and 3

Last night, I was out at the Bizarre Bazaar and came home just a little after Marshall's bedtime.  I had no clue that Marshall would decide it was bedtime almost an HOUR earlier than usual! So since I didn't get to read to him, we saved books 2 and 3 all for tonight, which worked out great!

Today is Marshall's birthday and he got TONS of new books, including Christmas books, so you'll see those throughout the month, in addition to old favorites!

Book #2: A Cars Christmas
Book #3: Jingle Pups

Cars has been one of my favorite movies ever since it came out, so I was of course excited to read it ;)

Marshall loves Paw Patrol, and I'm sure he's still confused as to why we call him and the dalmatian in the show by the same name. haha

25 Days of Christmas: Day 1

Something fun I've done in the past is my own 25 Days of Christmas with blog posts!  Each year, there's a different theme.  I did it for 6 years straight, starting in 2009.  2015 was the first year I didn't do it, because Marshall was born 22 days before Christmas.  Last year, we attempted, but only made it to the 5th day.  Well, this year, we're trying again with last year's theme: 25 Different Christmas books!

Marshall LOVES reading and looking through books now, so I think this year will be much more successful ;)

I wasn't home tonight for the first Christmas book of the season, but Matt got some great photos of Marshall flipping through the book.  Matt told me that Marshall was so excited to read (which he always is!) and wanted to hold the book himself the entire time. I can't wait until it's my turn tomorrow night ;) I know Marshall's going to love reading these books each night!

Book #1: Toy Story - Woody's White Christmas

To see previous 25 Days of Christmas posts:

2009: different Christmasy things done each day.  Click here to start :)

2010: favorite Christmas songs.  Click here to start :)

2011: favorite Christmas ornaments. Click here to start :)

2012: favorite Christmas movies. Click here to start :)

2013: different Christmas cookies/treats each day. Click here to start :)

2014: different Christmasy things done each day. Click here to start :)