Decorating The Tree!!!

Just a note. It is Tuesday morning and I just dropped Mia off at daycare for the first time as a kind of trial run since I am not officially working today. I stayed with her for a few and then said our goodbyes and as I was walking out I could see out of the corner of my eye that she was realizing I was leaving and started freaking out. I just walked away and didn't look back. I'm going to call in a few and see how she is-- I will let you know. I am taking this time to go test a couple kids from another school district so it wont be all day I am gone but I will let her stay most of the day. I will let you know how it goes-- sad :(

I picked Mia up from daycare around 3pm so she could stay for nap-- just to get her into the swing of things. The day care owner said Mia did great. She cried a bit after I left but warmed up to her (Ms. Sylvia) in no time. She said she played and that she was surprised by how fast Mia seemed to adjust. She went down for nap with no problem (which I was surprised by because it was a good 2 hours before we normally nap) and woke up fine. She got a little fussy right before I picked her up and of course when I walked in the door she started to cry but overall it looks like she had a great day-- YAAA!! Thursday is the "real" day so I will let you know how she does then.

Last night (Sunday night) we decorated our Christmas tree. I made our traditional soup and grilled ham and cheese sandwiches and we ate in the living room around the tree. When we were done eating we started decorating. The kids always love this time but sadly we started too late and the sugar cookie dough I had made so that we could decorate cookies later had to be put on the back burner-- we will decorate cookies later this week. We had a good time-- even with our limited time.

I played with the aperture on my camera all night and never really got it right. I tried and even put it on night mode but I could never get vibrant sharp and clear pictures-- uggg!! Some of these are blurry but they are still OK.

This is Kevin with his first ornament- December 1972- and Ethan with his first ornament- December 1998.

This was the first ornament we bought for Mia before we knew who she was-- December 2005. It is a lady bug-- very cute!

She loved this little bug and had major issues putting it on the tree.


She loved the dangle legs and with her playing with it for so long we lost one of the legs.



This is such a funny picture. It was a little stocking that Mia had grabbed out of the box and we said nothing to her but she tried to put it on her foot. It was hilarious!!




This was Owen's first ornament-- December 2000



Again, playing with the aperture and never getting it right-- too dark this time.

Kevin putting the Angel on the top of the tree-- we have had the same Angel since our first Christmas as a married couple 14 years ago.

Mia loved taking the ornaments out of the box and carefully inspecting each one. She loved this star!

Helping dad

Mia looking at the Angel on the top of the tree.

Ethan hanging ornaments

Both boys actually working together-- imagine that!!

We have a little tree on a table in our entry way. We decorated that one as well.

Our decorated house from across the street-- again, could not get the lighting correct-- ugg!!

And it could not have been a full and complete night without a break down which we promptly had towards the end-- go figure :)