O Christmas Tree

nervous_pirate, originally uploaded by skweerell.

We went out to the tree farm Saturday and chopped down our tree. Ro and Sim were besides themselves with the excitement of decorating it. Sim keeps running up to it and shrieking, "Treeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!" Occasionally, she attempts saying "Christmas tree" but that's a bit hard. They were both dancing around the tree desperate for Daddy to finish putting the lights on so they could hang ornaments. And, in Simone's case, take them off again. She's really into undecorating.

Ro was really thrilled with some abstract felt ornaments that he made last Christmas, when I just gave him a bunch of random felt shapes and he glued them together in different ways. While hanging them on Saturday, he said the one on the left was a "nervous man" and the one on the right was a pirate.

We didn't have a tree topper so I whipped up a felt angel last night, so Ro wouldn't go apopleptic from having a bare topped tree. Otherwise, we're cutting back on our Xmas decor because of Sim's destructive tendencies. We're not putting out the train because our nativity scene looks like the aftermath of a hurricane after Simone plays with it. The wisemen are scattered. Mary is flat on her face and minus her veil. Jesus is AWOL. I found him under the Christmas tree. The camel has no saddle and the sheep have their feet up in the air. The cat is totally missing. Simone really gets the mother/baby thing though. She's always bringing me Mary and Jesus together. Thankfully, we have a Playmobil nativity - so it just looks a mess with out being too destructible.

We also have lots of presents under the tree already. Ro gathered up random toys and wrapped them in blankets and positioned them all around the tree. We've been doing lots of blanket gift giving all week actually. Ro never seems to tire of opening imaginary presents.