Obligatory "can you tell that our kids decorated the tree?" picture:
It's the first tree the kids have actually seen get put up because The Evil Wire-Chewing Cats are currently banished to the laundry room--the first and only other time we put the tree up, it took Merry and Sam about 36 hours to chew through all but 1 strand of the lights on our pre-lit tree. The kids were really excited to see it and put the ornaments on themselves. Nora squealed, "Oh look! It's Christmas!" every time we opened a box. But my sappy "aw, don't 'fix' it, just let the bottom third of the tree be decorated because that's how far the kids can reach" idea backfired because Addy has pointed out about 50 times that if I would just go to the store to buy more ornament hooks, I could put up the rest of the ornaments and fill in the "barefoot" spots on the tree. Yup, she's definitely my kid.
