We are on our 6th year of doing this Christmas countdown.  It really has become a fun family tradition.  Hopefully this year Michael will start reading the books on his own.

This has truly become a lasting tradition for Christmas in our family.  We've been doing this Christmas book countdown since Michael was one and each year he has enjoyed it even more.  Hopefully this year he'll be able to start reading some of these books himself with the help of Jon or myself.

Even though the books have been wrapped for about two weeks, I'm just now getting around to writing about this year's countdown the night before.  This has become a really fun tradition for us and with Michael loving books even more, I see this lasting for several more years.

So, I'm a little late on getting this post done.  I was almost late on getting the books wrapped.  Yes, I was wrapping the books up until it was bedtime last night.  This is our 4th year of doing this fun countdown to Christmas Day and we enjoy doing it every year.

We did it, we finished the Christmas countdown on time!  Just had to read more than one book each night.  Here's the books for the final week of the countdown:

The third week of the countdown the whole family was sick so, we didn't get caught up like we had hoped.  Here's the books that were read that week:

The second week, we were still on vacation and travelling.  Once we got home, the plan was to get up to date with the countdown, but Michael has been sick and has been only up to reading one book.  Here's what Michael picked for last week:

We haven't been doing as well with this countdown as we have the past couple years.  Being on vacation during that week didn't really help.  Here's what Michael picked out: