The boys insisted that we pull out all the Christmas decorations on Sunday, right after grandma and grandpa left. Tommy remembered most of them this year, but they were all new to Charlie. They had a bit of drama over the advent calendars, but eventually I was able to convince Tommy that it would be OK for his old playmobile one to go into Charlie's room. He gets the new Lego one. Both are wonderful advent calendars with a toy or figure for each day.
"The wild things gnash their terrible teeth and roll their terrible eyes."
Tommy's favorites are the animatronic Rudolph figures and his nutcracker.
Charlie and Tommy had a wonderful time decorating the tree this year. David put the lights up and then we didn't really have to do anything. They put up all the ornaments. I moved some of my favorite ones up to the top of the tree, but was tempted to just leave them all down at little boy height. It was very obvious that they'd trimmed the tree, and I kind of liked the effect.
Yes, all the pictures I took of Tommy were like this. He's lost his sweet "smile for the camera" skillz.
David and I are around too this time of year. I know I don't put enough pictures of us up for you, so here you go. I was rocking the exhausted and dying of consumption look in this one, but David doesn't take pictures of me all that often.
And finally, our winter preparations really moved into overdrive today with the arrival of snow. It only snows 3-4 times a year here, so we have to get out and enjoy it whenever we can. Thanks to my dad, they always have warm winter coats, and this year I even remembered to buy them some boots.
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