We had our wonderful family friends over for Thanksgiving who included one of Dillon's very best friends, Aiden. I thought it would be a great idea to put up a tree before they had to leave for home and let all the boys decorate it as they please. When we used to have a living room and a family room I would put up my fancy-pretty tree in the living room and let the boys decorate a tree in the family room with all the fun ornaments that they love...but as nice as my fancy shmancy tree always looked, I always liked the boy's tree so much more with all the fun wooden ornaments, and Batman, Buzz and Woody ornaments, and the nutcracker guys on it. So now that we don't have a family room anymore we just have the one tree and it was adorned with all of our most fun and favorite ornaments, tastefully done by two 6 year olds and a 3 year old. Until one night when Carter wasn't feeling well and decided to get himself so cranky and angry that he pulled our 8 foot tree down. Yes, he pulled the whole thing down and we had to start all over again restringing lights and rehanging all the nice fun ornaments that hadn't broken in the fall...the boys really wanted the snowflakes this year :)
I had to include a picture of how our tree looks now, just because this has got to be the 6th year in a row that we can't string lights low or hang any ornaments within a baby or toddler's reach! It looks so funny. I can't remember what its like to have a fully decorated Christmas tree! I wish you all better luck with your own tree this year...
2 comments:
Its lovely! I went ahead and strung and hung them all the way down, and after days of "If you touch the Christmas tree, it's straight to time out!", I think its finally safe.
Some battles I pick...others I avoid all together :)
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