The day after Thanksgiving while all the other people are out shopping our family tradition is to break out all the Christmas decorations. We put up the tree (we have to have artificial because Brian is allergic to the real ones.) and put of the Dept. 56 village and hang the stockings and Gigi's Santas. The girls are both old enough to help decorate the tree this year and they both loved hanging the ornaments on the tree. At first Ellie wanted to take them off and put them back on over and over, but eventually she got the idea. Josie is a pro at this by now and she likes to see all the ornaments and likes to find special places for the ones that are hers. Here's Josie showing Ellie the ropes: The other traditon that we started last year was letting Josie put the star on the top of the tree. She loves that this is her special job, but once Daddy lifts her up over his head she has a hard time getting the giggles under control to actually get the star on the top of the tree. I suspect that by next year there will have to be a conversation about who gets to put the star up, but we will either take turns every year or maybe the star will have to go up twice! After a long mornings work the tree was beautiful and the girls were very proud of their masterpiece. The tree is my favorite thing at Christmas time. I love to turn on the lights and turn off every other light in the house and just sit in the room with the tree. Josie and Ellie love this becasue we have a button to push to light the tree instead of having to plug it in. They both learned very quickly how to turn the tree on and off and they love to turn it on every morning.
The other traditon that we started last year was letting Josie put the star on the top of the tree. She loves that this is her special job, but once Daddy lifts her up over his head she has a hard time getting the giggles under control to actually get the star on the top of the tree. I suspect that by next year there will have to be a conversation about who gets to put the star up, but we will either take turns every year or maybe the star will have to go up twice!
After a long mornings work the tree was beautiful and the girls were very proud of their masterpiece. The tree is my favorite thing at Christmas time. I love to turn on the lights and turn off every other light in the house and just sit in the room with the tree. Josie and Ellie love this becasue we have a button to push to light the tree instead of having to plug it in. They both learned very quickly how to turn the tree on and off and they love to turn it on every morning.
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