Trimming the Tree

The boys got their first chance to participate in putting ornaments on the tree this year. In previous years, I had always done them while they were asleep to avoid a pile of broken ornaments. And while this year's decorating did result in a few that ended up in the trash can, they did better than I thought they would. Once they realized that it was kind of tricky to get the ornament on the branch, they decided to just start picking out the ones they liked and handing them to me. They're so proud of their little tree and love to go stand and look at the different ornaments. Especially the snowman one that lights up. I tried to take a few pictures of them during the process but it was next to impossible so we'll go with the more posed ones that took place after.

"Two brothers!" as Kolbe always says. Poor kid has entered the awkward, forced smile stage of life.

See what I mean!?! How do you explain it to a three year old? "No, the other smile...the normal, natural one..."

Pointing out the light up snowman ornament. Too bad the camera flash drowns out all the lights!

So proud of all his decorating!