So what did everyone have in their advent calendars today then?

[SnowMuchToBits]

We have just opened ours! As usual, ds and I are having our annual advent calendar competition. Same rules as usual - we have guessed beforehand what picture wewill get in each window. 1 point for something which we have guessed for another date. 2 points for the correct thing on the correct date.

So far ds has got off to a flying start as he guessed snowman and got..... a snowman! So it's two points to him. I guessed Christmas pudding and got......mince pies! No points to me I'm afraid, as I hadn't guessed mince pies.

Ds also has a Christmas in the Forest Playmobil calendar. He had a tree in that.

We got, yes you guessed it, another shepherd, but this one had two sheep.

It does look like lentils or it could be a pile of poo (to continue a theme ). No idea but assume that the raccoon (I thought small badger ) may like it.

Still yet to be enthralled by this year's calendar. Next year we will be getting the dragon one apparently.

Lol at Sonea's shepherd!

Mollie, I have now been on the PlayoDB website, and identified the pile of lentils as.....

tree growth (topper)! So I have stuck it on my tree now. Oh, and apparently the tomatoes are apples

That's why there is a hole in the bottom. I did wonder. What kind of forest is it that has a surplus of apples, cabbages, carrots etc in the middle of winter?

I think maybe the vegetables have been delivered by kind Father Christmas so the animals don't starve....

But FC isn't around until the 24th as he's stuck in the box!

Perhaps he posted them on ahead of his arrival?

I guess it must be the elves. I mean we know that FC has 'staff'

Actually in our household, it is probably the existing Father Christmas who brought them (the one we have had for 2 years, who is currently serving as the Foreign Secretary in Norman's cabinet).

Today I had some Christmas decorations (1 point) and ds had a snowy house (0 points). That's more like it! (Although he is still 4 points ahead of me).

In the Playmobil one we had a raccoon (larger than yesterday's one).

SnowMuch I love the scoring idea! We are running out of pieces in our Playmobil one and still no sign of a delivery . But I hastily cobbled together a homemade one with daily 'Elf Notes' with suggestions of things to do, so that has been keeping the dcs distracted - only problem is that there's not always enough time to do the 'task' so we now have a bit of a backlog!

ps I love the raccoons!

Got a king today.

Just found this thread.A friend sent us a Jaquie Lawson on line calendar with animated scenes and music for each day in the form of a snow globe that 'sits' on my laptop, Today's was a scene with a house where the birds steal away bits from a Christmas wreath on the door and the pet dog brings it all back. It is charming.

Hooray for the king!

Campocaro, yours sounds interesting - I didn't know you could get online ones.

A blue and yellow playmobil macaw.

Now that sounds good belgo

Same as you SnowMuch. Ds not sure where to place large raccoon. Don't think small raccoon is getting a look in re food. I got told off for putting cabbages in the hay rack.

Today's offerings were bells (me, 1 point) and presents (ds, also 1 point).

And in the Playmobil calendar a wild boar .

I had mistletoe (1 point) and ds had a wintry tree (0 points). Yippee! He is still ahead by 3 points though....

In the Playmobil calendar we had a pile of pears and a bunch of carrots.

Today we got a cow. He's been placed in the stable to start warming it up with his methane gas emissions.

The cow is a he?

A fire today. we need it, it's so cold.

we have a festive robbery scene from Playmobil. Today we got a blue wheely bin. Yesterday was a little Playmobile bike for the robber to make his escape on. My favourite so far has been the festive hand gun and nightstick for the little festive police officer.

DS (4) is loving it.

We had the police one last year NightLark. Nothing like a bit of festive robbery, is there?