Call me the Grinch but I procrastinated and almost convinced myself to not put the tree up this year. The girls were obsessed with every tree and ornament collection we came in contact with; they immediately pulled the ornaments off the tree to play with and re-arrange them. I just foresaw my future spending way too much time trying to get them to leave the tree/ornaments alone and it did not sound fun. And then the epiphany came; I will just let them play with the ornaments. Who cares if they all get broken. All that will mean is less Christmas decor to shove back into those boxes that somehow manage to shrink every year. And that was the exact attitude these two little darling girls needed their Mom to have. They had an absolute ball decorating their beautiful Christmas tree.
They had so much fun running back and forth between the tree and I, collecting the ornaments and finding the perfect spot for them on the tree.
And how did our tree turn out? Initially like this:
About five or six ornaments per branch, all basically located on the bottom right side of the tree. The prettiest Christmas tree I have ever seen. Sort of. There was plenty of time for it to evolve over the next few weeks...
When it was time to take it down half of their play room was taken out of the tree and about a dozen or more ornaments had met their untimely demise (as well as plenty of tree branches).
Poor Miko, a distant part of the party. And Bails was more than overjoyed to find a huge sock that had her name on it. She wore it around the house for hours.
The socks were such a big hit they never actually got hung up, they just got stuffed with toys and little feet for weeks. Christmas through the eyes of a 2 and 3 year old.
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