Decorating the Tree

Decorating the tree is always a lot of fun. We let Garrett decide when we would put decorations up, before or after his birthday. With his birthday being in December, we want to make sure that he knows his birthday is still so special. He wanted it up before Christmas, so we slowly started decorating. (It's a little hard to decorate with so many little ones running around, getting into everything, and being mischievous because they know you are busy.) Plus we ran into a slight snag when opening our ornament tote - a water globe had leaked! Wet ornaments, airtight container, 12 months = mold! YUCK!!!! but we saved what we could and decorated away.

It is quite a haphazard looking tree, decorated entirely by a 2 year old, a 3 year old, a 4 year old, a 6 year old and an 8 year old. Nathan did put the final touch on, a star, which now doesn't work :) due to the water globe incidence, but still, we like it.