I'm sure you must agree. Or we could go with Ray's description, "It looks like an upside-down 2-dimensional Christmas tree." There isn't really a good top to this "tree", that's why we put the big star and bow at the bottom. :-) The girls love it. This morning I heard the girls talking about the tree before they left their bedroom, then again in the living room, and again when they came upstairs. If Cora just catches a glimpse of it she will smile and say, "Pretty Christmas tree."If you want an explanation: we didn't have time to go up on the mountain to look for a tree, so we went Christmas tree hunting in our front yard. It is a branch off our spruce tree.
As for the rest of our decorations, they aren't very extensive. We do have two two-year-olds in the house so I really don't feel that decorations are very safe. I did decide to decorate our stair railing (it's just so perfect for it that I can't resist). However, I decided not to do the same thing I've done in years past, which is this:
As much as I like the holly, I had too many visions of the girls eating plastic holly berries (maybe because they tried that last year).
So I tried this, instead:
The girls enjoy the stair's "necklaces", as they put it. I think it turned out quite nice.
I have a lot of pictures from Thanksgiving to put up, sometime. But since I like my true, random, procrastinating self to come through in my blog, I thought I'd skip ahead to Christmas and return to Thanksgiving when I get around to it. Who wants things in chronological order, anyway?
6 comments:
the tree is cute!!! And i like the stair's necklaces!!!
I love the stairs, its cute. I agree with your girls the tree is very pretty and unique.
It's fun to see how excited kids get over Christmas decorations, isn't it?
I'm a little OCD ... I kinda like things in order. ;)
I like the stair necklaces. I had forgotten how much fun it is to decorate with a toddler around. I think we must have put every ornament within her reach on the trees at least 3 or 4 times. She rearranged everything else she could reach, too. I'm quite certain she believed we put them there just for her and she was very grateful for the entertainment.
Isn't it great how kids love it, no matter how grand? Our last Christmas spent with Brent's dad, the Boys and I had gotten out our little tree (fake and very small), the same tree we'd had since Brent and I were first married. We got it all decorated and were so proud of ourselves. This was a big deal too, since when we lived there I was very anti-decorating and anti-Christmas-spirit (didn't care to live there much, apparently. Ha!). So when Brent's dad said he was getting a tree and wanted to put it where we'd set ours up (yea, I guess we could've asked permission before putting our tree up) so could we take ours down, the Boys were devastated. Mitch sobbed and sobbed, "But I love our tree!" My heart melted so I defied orders and didn't take it down. I just moved it. :)
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