With Thanksgiving leftovers slowly dwindling in the refrigerator, and the calender officially flipped over to December this week brought on the first major rush of Christmas season activities. Jen had been diligently decorating the house all week, turning it into it's usual wonderland of Christmas cheer, and on Friday we acquired the Christmas decoration to end all Christmas decorations: the tree.
Though Aiden didn't participate in tree acquisition morning since he was at school, when he came home his enthusiasm was through the roof about the new and improved state of our living room! We were eager to get the tree looking festive so we threw some Christmas music on the record player, cracked open the boxes of ornaments and got going!
He was a very active participant in the tree decoration though, as he (almost) literally dove headlong into his assignment of placing the shiny silver ball decorations. At times Jen and I had to hold our tongue as his tendency to place multiple ornaments on a single branch grated against our more refined tree-decorating sensibilities. Aiden was having so much fun that we just let him do his thing (knowing, of course, that nap time would provide the opportunity for much ornament rearrangement.)
Aiden was focused. Very, very focused.
Teamwork.
Another year, another fine looking coniferous specimen decked out in our living room. Now we just have to get some presents under that thing. Also, I just realized that this a Brady free picture post. I'll have to take some pictures of him with the tree soon so that we can rectify that gross oversight!
1 comment:
A beautiful tree, Aiden!
When we were little, my brothers and I would have fun helping to decorate the tree, tinsel and all, on Christmas Eve day. When we came down in the morning, it was as if the tree had been MAGICALLLY transformed! Every piece of tinsel was carefully and perfectly placed on each branch. And all our gifts were beautifully wrapped and bowed. To this day, I don't know how my Grammy & Pop had the energy to do all they did to make our Christmases so special and memorable. XO
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