Good morning, D! Just checking in on you. It looks like you've got it pretty much under control.
I was thinking about your boys while I was wrapping gifts last night. When my kids were younger, I used to extend Christmas by several hours by having a treasure hunt with one of their gifts. I'd hide the gift somewhere in the house. When they got through opening all their gifts, they knew to look for the ornament on the tree that had a clue attached (I'd have to write names, with five kids they'd often find one another's clues...lol) Each clue lead to a different place in the house - I had about 10 clues leading up to the hidden gift. My kids loved this. When the twins were so young they couldn't read yet, I'd draw pictures of the hiding spots so they could play, too.
For an oven, I'd write something like: "I start out cold, but can get very hot." Some years, I'd be super-creative, some years less so, depending on how much time I had to dream up clues. For me, I was coming up with 50, so time didn't always allow lots of time if I wasn't thinking about it far enough in advance.
I wanted to pass this along for your boys. You may not have time for such an activity this year, but there's always the next! I always tried to make holidays fun - there's nothing like the joy of watching your kids making memories.
