Fervor

Our family has an advent calendar that E used when he was young and K can finally enjoy herself. Made of wood, with little numbered doors, we fill it ourselves each night after K goes to bed and she knows to look in the next window when she wakes up in the morning. I particularly like it because she doesn't have to have chocolate everyday. To date she has gotten a turtle, a woven ring, fair trade chocolate coins, castanets and an elephant. I am amazed that she has such a good grasp of yesterday, today and tomorrow. She recounts for me each afternoon what she has gotten in each door and that there are "no more anymore" but she will look in the morning tomorrow.