We once again continued the tradition of trimming the tree and getting Chinese takeout for supper on Thursday evening. The boys were on cloud 9, as they've been asking for over a week now almost every single day when we are going to put the Christmas tree up. Kendrick calls Christmas trees "Christmas", which is really cute :) He's also significantly better than big brother at putting the ornaments on the tree (riddle me that one?)
The boys were quite a bit more owly than usual, so it made for a lot of sweet moments followed almost immediately by screaming and tears. We're thinking the earlier bedtime last night was MUCH-needed.
The tree looks significantly more barren this year than in previous years, but considering last year the boys broke two "unbreakable" ornaments we had gotten on some of our favorite trips, and Cashel has become significantly more interested in cutting things with scissors, we figured it'd be safer to just hold off a few more years on those, and work on crafting our own this year.
They boys weren't overly interested in the Chinese this year (we usually get beef & broccoli and crab rangoon), and it gave me mild heartburn, but tradition, right?
Usually the tradition also goes that we then snuggle up when it's all done and everything is decorated and watch the Polar Express, but Cashel already informed us multiple times in the past two weeks that The Polar Express is "super scary" and he "doesn't like it", so we went with Ice Age Christmas instead, which he loved!
After all was said and done, the boys donned their Christmas PJs and we tried to get a few pictures by the tree of them for the final page of the Grandparent photo books that I was beginning to wonder if we'd ever get ordered in time.
As I recall, Cashel had just slugged Kendrick and we yelled at him for it, so he was acting all innocent because he quite obviously did not "make the good choices", as he says these days.
Overall, it didn't really go super well, but randomly one turned out, and one is all you need!
And the tree is trimmed now (somewhat) and makes the house feel so festive!
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