Trimming the Tree

The tree is up at the Morrey house.  The kids are at such a fun age!  They were great helpers.  Brooklyn proclaimed it "the best day ever."  

While unpacking the decorations, Ethan saw our mistletoe and said, "Hey, is this mistletoe?" Jen replied, "Yeah, do you know what mistletoe is for?" Ethan didn't know. Jen told him that whoever stands under it gets a kiss.  Ethan replied, "Oh.  So it's kind of like a trap!"

 

Ethan was excited to climb the ladder to decorate the tree.  Unfortunately, there was only one branch that he could reach from the ladder.  Kyle noticed this early in the decorating, and snapped a picture, because he thought it was funny that there were four ornaments hanging from the same branch...

 

...By the end of the night, this is what the branch looked like.  We counted 13 ornaments.

It was fun to talk about the symbolism of the different ornaments.  The kids requested three tellings of the Christmas story so they could act it out with the nativity figurines.
It was also fun to talk about the significance of the different ornaments as we got them out.  We have a tradition to get a new ornament every year depicting a memorable event from that year.