New Christmas Tradition

I read about a tradition that I thought would be nice for Addie since she loves books. Each night during the month of November we open 1 book from a row of 23 wrapped and placed along the mantel. There are so many great Christmas books, my mom would always get out the Christmas books each yerar and I remember how fun it was to get to read them all again. The first book was Elf on the Shelf (Addie has named her elf Elfie and loves seeing where he is and saying "Hi" to him). She wants a shopping cart for Christmas and is starting to get the whole Santa brings gifts to good little children. The second book we read this morning while Damien was still here was the Polar Express. Over the next few weeks we have Babar's Christmas, Madelines Christmas, Carls Christmas, the Wild Christmas Reindeer and many more. I am looking forward to reading them all with her, the last one will ne the Night Before Christmas on December 24th. It should be a fun tradition for all of us. You can see all the books wrapped on the mantle in the picture, so far Addie hasnt climbed up to get them down and unwrap them all; but I probably will have to check on her if she is too quiet in the living room for more than a minute or two.