Decorating the Tree

Caleb thought the branches were meant for sword fighting with Michael.

We decorated our tree on Sunday afternoon and woke Nathan up from his Sunday afternoon nap.  He was a good sport about waking up, but was in quite a daze.  He sat like this on the couch - not moving, just staring for a long time.  Poor Nathan.  But he does get credit for attempting to be there.

This looks like a grumpy face from Michael, but he wasn't grumpy.  He volunteered to be "in charge" of the tree last year and we gladly passed the torch.  I love it that he wants to be involved and is old enough and big enough to do it.  I just take pictures and put up the lights now and watch the fun!

Lydia - thinking out of the box as usual.  ;)  She's so creative!

Elizabeth joins the creativity.

This series of pictures cracks me up.  Is it possible to hear a laugh with pictures?  I think these pics prove that it is.  Caleb kept trying to sword fight Michael with a duster and thought it was the most hilarious thing ever.

More creativity from Lydia... jingle bell earrings.

Santa hats

And of course Lydia has to wear it her own way ... "Look mom, I'm SantaPhant!"  (Santa the Elephant)

Almost done...

And then we put up 3 of the 4 strands of lights and realized that the last strand didn't work (even though we tested it - it didn't work on the tree).  

So we took down all the lights and waited till the next day to buy new lights.  We did, however, have some eggnog since it's tradition.

I love this picture!