Out with Halloween, in with Christmas!

Aavo in our office- he says he doesn't like the color of his room, he wants this instead, Maili eats her Thanksgiving dessert, and finally! grass is growing in our yard thanks to hours of hard work by Bob. He laid sod and planted seed and rerouted downspout water so that we'd be ready for winter. The rock walls are starting to take shape too. So...now that it's December, it's time to take down our halloween mice decorations (time to take down the live ones too! Tired of seeing poop along the baseboards!) and put up a tree. This year, Bob wanted to go and cut one down so we went to a beautiful tree farm. On the car ride, Aavo chewed his first piece of gum. He'll be enjoying it for 7 years. Maili liked the cute little baby trees but we picked out a nice big one and Bob cut it down. I got the decorations out and sadly realized that we have some of the ugliest ornaments in the world. Remember the styrofoam balls wrapped in silky thread? Those are our good ones. Just kidding, but I did decide to splurge on some pretty new ornaments this year. By splurge I mean whatever's on sale at Target. We did put up some of them, though. Aavo hung all of his from the same branch. His favorite pose these days is with his tongue hanging out to one side...He had his 3 year check up today and they were so impressed with him and said he was a very intelligent boy with high aptitude. They said this is proof that I'm a fantastic mother. Ok, they didn't put it like that. They said something like, "He's so well behaved". Anyway, Maili topped the tree with her angel from preschool and then we put the kids to bed and sat around and drank festive drinks and watched Monk and Psych. Fa la la.