Christmas traditions to start on baby's first Christmas?

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Blended family so we would like to start some traditions with out 11 month old that we can involve the teenagers with.
I don't want to go OTT just looking for some lovely ideas?
Going to bake cookies, have environmentally friendly reindeer dust and new pjs, anything else?

I think you're over planning. Just let things evolve naturally.

No suggestions at all - but bear in mind that once you have started it, you are stuck with it for a billion years. So start as few traditions as possible!

Buy a new ornament for the tree each year, let them choose once they’re old enough to. We did this and every year we bring out the box of decorations lovely memories come flooding back of the time we bought the decoration. It might be something that they loved on the TV at the time (we have a knitted teddy which stemmed from Harry Hill) or a Santa on a scooter from a time they loved racing scooters round etc etc I just wish we’d taken a photo of them holding each years decoration as they grew (they’re now 17 and 20)

I bought a bauble for my babies first Christmas and plan to have her pick a new bauble every year.
I don’t have other children.
I bought a book and wrote a message in the front and plan to do this each year.

@maryzx ha yes I agree with this, that's why I said nothing OTT. I'm so glad I am able to retire/get rid of elf on the shelf now!
@jenthehen @Kona84 these are lovely. I'll get a pic of a new bauble chosen by him every year

Let the baby choose a special new bauble in the shop every year, and writer her bame and age somewhere in marker pen on it. I love looking at my tree and seeing the bauvle my baby smiked at wgen ahmgenone, grabbed fon a shekf at age two, sithered over at age 6, etc.

We started a tradition each Christmas to do something crafty as a family-so got our toddler to colour in some cardboard ornaments last year. This year we are going to bake ans decorate xmas cookies.
We also try and do a walk to a trig point on xmas eve-easier with small baby on back! Theres also some more accessible trig points for the walking toddler. If your into your outside adventures they make lovely photo opportunities 😊

How about a book you all write something in, age, height, favorite school subject, what you wat for Xmas, what you plan for next year.

Obviously you will be writing things in for your baby but the teenagers can write their own, it might be, "this is stupid" but you will laugh about it in years to come, pack it away with your decorations.

If you can knit / crochet you could do a hat and scarf for each person each year - take a pic of you all and save it.

My kids pick a new bauble every year. We go to a lovely garden centre nearby to buy them, and have lunch and a wander around looking at all the Xmas things.
I used to take them to the family service at church on Xmas eve, but they grew up and stopped wanting to go.