She used some of the decorations as personal accessories.
Unfortunately I did not take a picture of the tree when we were finished.
Every year we plan on buying new ornaments for the family. When the kids move out they will have a bunch of ornaments that have great meaning to them. This is Rachel's ornament for this year. It represents her 2nd Christmas on earth.
Rachel was awestruck by the tree and loved looking at the ornaments. I spent a lot of December reminding her that she "musn't touch" the tree or the ornaments. She was drawn to them like a moth to a flame. One day Doug pointed to the tree and asked Rachel, "what's that?" She replied verbally and with sign, "No. [pause] No, no, no, no, no." Most of the time she just called it the "kiskis tee."
I was grateful that there were only a few ornament casualties this year. Rachel pulled a couple of glass baubles off of my parent's tree and tried banging them on the round mental staircase. Breakage was inevitable. Mom was very gracious about it. And we all agree that she handled all the temptation very well for her age.
Okay, that's hilarious -- the whole "No, no, no" thing. Molly has a friend who placed a certain stuffed animal/doll in front of the tree because it scared their kid to death, meaning the kid never went near the tree. Funny how we delight in making the season magical for our kids, but no touching!
ReplyDeleteAnd thank you for your sweet comments. I feel like this "bump" of mine is trying to do me in. And succeeding.