Christmas Tree Time

Friday night Steve and I decided to put up the Christmas tree. We have a pre-lit fake tree, so we just have to snap it together and plug it in, and voila! We didn't put any ornaments on it so Charlotte could help us the next day. When she came downstairs on Saturday morning she looked at the tree and just said "wow!" It was the perfect day to decorate the tree because we were cozy inside during our first snowstorm of the season!

Charlotte deciding the perfect spot for her ornament

Maybe down here?

No...let's try it up here! (For some reason we have 3 sock monkey ornaments, so we probably have one in each of these places)

Admiring the snowman ornament (and still holding the sock monkey ornament...one of them at least)


Every day Charlotte comes downstairs in the morning and says "wow!" or "tree!" And throughout the day she has to go to the back room and admire it. So far she has not tried to rip off any ornaments. She just points to each one and identifies what it is. There is an ornament that my parents got us after our wedding with a bride and groom and without any prompting, she points and says "mama, daddy." It is so fun to experience all of these firsts with her (even though she saw the tree last year, i'm calling this her first "real" Christmas experience).