And boy did we succeed!
Meet our new tree. We have named her Lafayette (for her previous home). She is a 9ft, pre-lit beauty that we scored for only $50! The previous owners said they paid $350 for this tree 3 years ago. There were a few burnt out strands of lights but Walter easily spliced in some replacements.
I'm a little sad that we don't have the "going to pick out the Christmas tree" experience this year, but I'm quickly getting over it. Walter assembled the tree while the boys were napping so every morning X tells me "We got a Christmas tree while we were sleeping!"
The plan was to decorate the tree as a family on Sunday. Well I should have known that the boys would be more interested in playing on the step stool (just like last year). Oh, and please disregard X's choice of clothing for the day. He decided that wearing one of Walter's t-shirts would be just the way to ruin my hopes of a "hallmark moment" kind of photograph. Instead he looks like he's going to go finger paint or something :)
The other thing that was the highlight of tree decorating was this old stroller box that I had brought up from the basement to throw away. X decided it made a perfect new toy for him.
Towards the end of the decorating I did manage to get X to hang a few ornaments. Standing on the step stool of course!
This tree is so big that Walter had to balance himself off the entertainment center and top handle of the step stool to get the angel on. Doesn't that look safe!
I did have a sweet moment with Xavier as we got out the nativity and talked about each of the people. I was showing him the shepherd boy and he said to me "The Lord is MY shepherd". How adorable!
During the decorating process Wesley managed to appoint himself the clean up crew. He pushed this sweeper around the room for a good 20 minutes straight. He looked so proud of himself.
It was fun too look at all the ornaments we have collected over the years. Last year Xavier made his first (of many I'm sure!) ornaments. It was a paper ornament he made at story time at the library. I love how the stickers are placed so randomly. He was really proud of this.
It's strange to think that this will be Wesley's First Christmas, and last "first holiday". He seems like he's been here awhile to it's weird to think that he hasn't celebrated a Christmas yet. I need to put his name on his stocking I made last year!
1 comment:
He's better than OK, he's our Wooga ! Love the fact that the boys liked the stepstool most of all. Hope they don't try that stunt their daddy did on it though. That's "dangous".
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