We celebrated Thanksgiving this past Thursday at Shawn's parents with the Peterman side then with my parents and sister and her family Friday night after I got done with work. Saturday we headed down to Walcott to my Grandma's to celebrate with the Warnecke's. After stuffing ourselves with the usuals and making the hard decision between Grandma's apple pie and pumpkin torte we started decorating for Christmas. Last year we Oliver was too young to even care about the tree or decorations but that is different this year. He helped decorate the tree at Great Billie's but soon we had to make him stop because he kept taking the decorations off again and then throwing them into the tree. I don't think he understood or could manage to hang the hanger on the tree branch.
Sunday we ate breakfast and started decorating our house. We have a fake tree so Shawn and I put it up while Oliver danced with his Mickey and puppy to the Christmas music.
After stringing the lights Oliver then "helped" if you could call it that hang the ornaments.
We put all the breakable ornaments up higher and Oliver helped hang some of the non-breakable ones lower down with the help of Shawn and I.
Our Christmas tree
After all that hard work and eating for the past 3 days it was nap time for all of us.
Later that evening after coming back into the house from the garage, it was dark out and Oliver walked into the living room and stopped suddenly by the tree and said "Mommy, it's beautiful" as if he forgot we had put it up that morning. Now each evening he tells us to turn the lights on the tree and sits under the tree looking at the lights.
Awwww, he is freaking adorable! Your pictures made me dig back through my photos because I could swear we had pictures of Ian in that shirt decorating the tree, too. Turns out he wore it to see Santa instead :)
ReplyDeleteThank you, those were such sweet pictures. Now he can relax and wait for Santa to put the presents under the tree that he decorated.
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