Let the Christmas Decorating begin...

We promised Lukas that we would finally put up the tree on Friday morning. After a leisurely morning my boys put up the tree while I went out to get my fresh greens for outside. When I returned home they had the tree up waiting for decorations. I'm still not use to it taking twice as long to decorate the tree with a little one around. He loves going through the ornaments and other decorations and I find I spend half my time following what he is doing and the other half re-arranging the decorations. He tends to lump them all in one spot. This year he had a little more vertical direction to his decorating with the assist of the step stool.

A little sticker fun to keep the little impish elf busy while we got things together.




The finished product. This was pretty much all we got accomplished since we had to keep up with Lukas pulling everything out faster than we could put it together. Good thing there are several weeks until Christmas.

Getting ready for Santa

We arrived home to find several inches of snow had fallen and the sun hadn't melted it all away yet. Driving down the street seeing the Christmas decorations and the snow on the ground and in the trees made it really feel like the Christmas season. It is hard to believe it is already here and that we have Lukas with us this year, finally! We decided it was time we got around to actually putting ornaments on the tree and decorating the mantel. Santa can't fill the stockings if they aren't hanging up! Decorating a tree with a 3 year old helper is quite the experience for us but the tree turned out ok. He got a kick out of helping us (and I mean helping!!) carry the boxes upstairs and pull everything out! We opted to put the kid friendly train under the tree this year since Lukas likes to TOUCH everything. Here is the end result with our very own impish elf.





Lukas - Don't touch the train!


I sorry, I just can't help myself!



I promise to try and do better...


HO,HO,HO!


MERRY CHRISTMAS!