A Tree for Christmas

We took the plunge tonight and decorated the tree. The kids have been super excited for it for a few weeks now and once they heard that we were going to do it tonight they almost drove us insane all day long!

It is amazing how quickly a tree can get decorated when you have a lot of little hands to put the ornaments on.

The boys were instructed to focus on the middle of the tree and leave the bottom branches for the girls. Eric and I were in charge of the top third of the tree. It is woefully empty in comparison to the bottom.

Reid did not help with the decorating process. Although he watched with great interest to see what we were doing.

Zane was probably the most excited decorator of all. He was also one of the quickest decorators. I had to tell him to slow down to be able to get any pictures of him at all.

Once the tree was up and ready we released Reid from his saucer. He is VERY intrigued by the tree and wants to touch all the lower ornaments. At least everything on the bottom is very kid safe and non breakable. And we attached the tree to the curtain rod with some fishing line to keep him from pulling it over. We may regret putting it up this early this year but I still think it will have been worth it.