Two-Year-Olds and Christmas Decorations

I wish I could come up with a good analogy for the experience of decorating a Christmas tree with two 2-year-olds.

Look at those faces and let your imagination run wild on this one.

They loved the whole experience and created havoc with the tree and decorations for over an hour!

Once they decided they were done, I kept decorating and they pretended they were going night-night with Daddy.

Then they played and played and played...

Silas in particular is having a hard time keeping his hot little hands off all the Christmas decorations around the house (although amazingly only one ornament has been broken so far!). You can see him actually holding his hand back in this picture.

Zoe does her share of poking too!

Silas is obsessed with an ornament tree that I set up for the first time this year. I caught him getting his nose really, really close to it.

And then he touched it.

And then he boy-handled it and started shaking it for the ten kajillionth time since yesterday. I ended up moving it to the kitchen table. He loves it a lot, so don't be surprised if I post a picture of him sitting on the table next to it, with his nose really close :-)

The tree is beautiful and I'm so happy we're finally decorated!!!

BUT, I'm fairly certain I'll be taking everything down on January 1st after they are in bed...

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