O Christmas Tree!

Thanksgiving was over. We made it back from Nana's and of course the kids know what the next step in the holiday process is....Putting up the Christmas Tree!

Last year we decided not to put any ornaments on the tree because Kate was so.....busy. Instead we let the kids make ornaments and we decorated with those. It actually turned out quite nice. We strung popcorn...and that was nice until I found Kate eating it off the string :). Our tree ended up fully decorated with beautiful creations from the kids.

Well, this year we decided to get the ornaments out and keep the less breakable ones to the bottom for Kate and all the others to the top for the big kids.

All 3 were so excited and could hardly wait for Daddy to fix the strings of lights at the top of the tree that were not working for the past 2 years. Time was spent playing in the tree tub and looking in the ornament bin.

Finally it was time...let the decorating begin!

Kate started with her favorite ornament. A wooden rocking horse....she did great getting it on the branch all by herself.

Then, it was Grace's turn. She chose an Ariel ornament...the one that sings :).

Finally, it was Jack's turn. He picked the Weiner-mobile ornament....funny :)



Then it was a free for all. I tried my hardest to keep up with the kids. My job was to unwrap the ornaments and pass them out...making sure no one got to put on more ornaments than the others. We stopped many times to talk about where an ornament came from, whose ornament it was, why we got it....I love that part. There are MANY ornaments on the tree that were mine when I was a little girl. Grace loved being able to put my childhood ornaments on the tree just like I did when I was little. 

Finally, it was time to put the star on the tree. Jack and Grace thought it was would be fun to have Kate do it because she has never gotten to put the star up on the very top. So, with help from Daddy the star was placed on the top of the tree and it was done...until Kate started re-arranging her ornaments!



So, now we patiently wait for Santa to fill our stockings and put some presents under the tree. Kate is not too sure about the whole Santa coming to her house thing. A patient asked her if Santa was coming to her house and she very boldly said "NO WAY"....obviously we won't be going to visit Santa at the mall this year too! If you ask Kate what Santa is bringing her she says, "toys and bubbles"...He just better leave them somewhere for us to pick up because he is NOT coming to her house!