Writing their letters

A few days ago, for the girls day 2 advent activity, they wrote their letters to Father Christmas. Elle drew a sylvanian family house and Mia drew, well, a few squiggles and told me it was a rainbow. I think she might be a little disappointed that Father Christmas will not be bringing her a rainbow! We put them into envelopes and wrote the royal mail Father Christmas address on it so the girls will get a reply. Mia and i took them to be posted yesterday and i am excited to see what replies they get!

Let's decorate a lonely tree

Day 3. Let's decorate a lonely tree.

The girls had a little letter in their 3rd advent stocking today that said we were going to find a lonely tree and decorate it with Christmas decorations. Elle had school, so i packed up a basket with tinsel and baubles and took it up to school for when Elle finished. We then went over to the meadows and woods by Elle's school and found this wonderful tree in the corner on the meadow. It was just a perfect tree and we all agreed. We made it look very Christmassy indeed. The girls had a little play, chasing each other with the tinsel and then we packed up all the decorations and headed to the shop for some treats. It was lovely and an activity the girls will be having in their activity advent calender every year!

p.s Don't forget about the Argos voucher giveaway i have running this week!

GIVEAWAY: Argos vouchers

Hands up! Who remembers sitting down with an Argos catalog and writing their Christmas wish list. I remember doing this with my sister and brother and handing my parents sheets and sheets of paper with scribbled page numbers and prices on. We would all cosy up on my top bunk with the catalog and pick one thing from each page and just wishing that maybe that year, we might get the hundreds of toys we had picked out!

Now that i am a parent, Argos is one of my go to places for presents for my two girls. It always has a great selection of toys and the prices are great for families. Why not have a peek at the dream toys here at Argos and see what bargains you can find for your little ones! Here are our picks from the catalog this year for the girls. Mia is getting a dolls house and Elle is getting some sylvanian family bits. Both girls love Sofia and Doc Mcstuffins and would love to see these under the tree this year!

And here is the exciting part! Argos are giving away £30 in vouchers to one lucky reader! Imagine what lovely things you could buy with that (or even treat yourself to something)!

The giveaway is open to anyone in the UK and will run for one week. I will email the winner within 2 days of the giveaway finishing. To enter, please use the entry box below. If you complete the blog post option, you will then have more options to gain more entries into the draw. Please make sure you read the terms and conditions attached to the bottom of the rafflecopter widget. Good luck!!!!!

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Picking the tree

It is finally December which means christmas has started. I posted yesterday about hanging up the girls advent activity garland and today, they had their first love letter from Father Christmas which told them we were going to get the tree. I wrote it so Elle could read it and she was so excited that she would read the note all herself and started squealing and started telling her sister what we were going to do.

We don't have our car fixed just yet, so we took a little walk to our local hardware store and the girls helped pick out our tree. When we got home, we put on some christmas music, had a little dance and decorated the tree and hung up the stockings. I love this day every year and next year, we will be visiting the christmas tree farm again to pick out our tree. I love creating these memories and we are so excited for christmas this year.

Their advent calender

Tomorrow is the start of December so, today, i bought down all the decorations from the loft as we are picking out our tree tomorrow. The girls are spending the night at my mums house, so i hung up their activity calender. This will be the third year we use this garland. I am hoping to make something new for next year. Each day, the girls will get a "love letter" from father christmas with an activity on. I was reading back through my blog at the last two years worth of activities earlier and i am excited to document this years on the blog.

Does anyone else do these activity calenders instead of the shop bought chocolate ones? I would love to hear about yours.

This girl

It has been nearly three months now that Elle started school. I have every day at home with this little lady. Before Elle went to school, Mia just followed Elle around and copied everything Elle did and now she has all this time with me to become her own person. She has completely blossomed and i feel like everyday, i am getting to know her more and more. I am learning little bits about her everyday. She is very feisty and stubborn but just so hysterically funny! She is quite a goof and loves to pull faces to make people laugh. She will not sit still at all! She is always busy and playing. She loves being in her sisters room and playing with all the bigger girl things. We are going to get her a dolls house the same as Elle's for christmas. Last week, i heard some banging around in Elle's room at around 3am. I went to check on Elle thinking she had fallen out of bed and it was Mia playing in Elle's dolls house in the dark! She is such a funny thing and loves her dolls and babies and teddies.

I feel like i still don't completely know her and i am excited for all these days together to bond with her more and more.