Book Advent

I saw this idea right after Christmas last year and have been dying to do it ever since.

It's a Book Advent!

You wrap up 25 books and each night you have your child open one and you read it by the tree.

I did really good finding Christmas books up until Gabe came and then I totally quit looking.  We ended up with 13 Christmas books and the rest I'm getting from the library.  I'm thinking that we will add a new one every year to the collection until we have 25.

I made the mistake of putting our basket of books under the tree on November 29th.  Three days before Josie was allowed to open one. 

Needless to say I spent the next 2 days saying, "Not until December 1st."

Next year the books stay in my closet until December!

I was a little nervous when she picked the one that I knew she had read a million times.  She's had it since her first Christmas.

But the excitment of unwrapping it overshadowed the fact we'd read it before.  I can't wait for her to start picking the ones we've never read!

How do you count down to Christmas with your kids?