Decorating for Christmas....

We started decorating for Christmas the week after Thanksgiving. Mostly because Garrett is a big fan of holiday decorations. He knows that we have totes of decorations in the garage for special Holidays. He would remind us everyday that we needed to put lights up and when we put a few up he wanted to put more and more and more. So over the course of a few weeks we eventually got every single light we owned up and on display. I have to admit that decorating with and for the kids is more exciting and magical. You can just see the joy in their eyes when you first plug in the lights.

As for the Christmas tree, we jammed all of our ornaments on the top half of our artifical tree. We did this because Jake is in the stage of grabbing everything. We didn't want to have to pick up all the ornaments everyday off the floor. Garrett loved looking at every ornament and helping mommy put them up. Jake also enjoyed looking at the tree and would point at it whenever we turned the lights on.