Advent Activities

Ben is just barely old enough to enjoy some holiday activities (although he has no interest in sitting in the lap of this enigmatic Santa person), so here's a photo journal of advent thus far.

This past Sunday, we went up to Waterville to see our friends' son's baptism. Ben got to play with some friends his age.
I sewed an advent calendar out of felt. All the pockets ended up crooked, but since we live in an old house without a single straight line or level surface in it, it matches. Ben enjoys taking an item out of a pocket every morning (usually a pretzel or a chocolate), and he's learning more of his numbers (he's up to 14 now).

It's getting colder, and we did have snowflakes yesterday, so that makes good mornings for sitting around in your PJs and watching cartoons.

This past Friday, we drove up to LL Bean's campus in Freeport, checked out the lights, did a bit of shopping, played in the Crooked Houses & Enchanted Forest, and watched the Sparkle Parade. Ben's favorite activity was opening and closing the door to the little red schoolhouse.

Here's a little surprise I made for Ben for Christmas (Shhh!): Kipper and Pig felt puppets. Kipper is one of Ben's favorite characters. I got the idea from The Land of Nod, as I also did for the advent calendar.