12.18.2008

rainy Christmas trees with decorations high in the sky

We had planned to get our Christmas tree the weekend after Thanksgiving. When we woke up to a rainy (and muddy!) day, we decided to go anyway. Sylvia had new boots to try out, and other than the hay ride being a bit too wet to try out, we had a great day. Sylvia had fun stomping around the trees with Grammy and "Chrissy-Mark", as she would say, and even got to help feed the horsies some carrots.

We kept the tree outside a few days to dry off, but now it is beautifully decorated in our living room. Sylvia says "ooohhh prettty" every time I turn the lights on, and said the same thing each time we hung a decoration. She started off wanting to hang them all herself, but later enjoyed telling me where to hang them. She pointed to the top of the tree each time and said "high in the sky". After I finished each ornament she clapped and said "Yeah Mommy!". We saved the angel and some of the special ornaments for Daddy. She liked to look at each one, and then hand them off to Daddy so he could hang it, and she could move on to the next ornament. Decorating a tree has never been so much fun!