It's Beginning to Look a lot like Christmas!

While I'm not particularly loving the temperatures that are accompanying this snowfall (eighteen degrees with a wind chill near zero), I'm loving the blanket of white that has covered everything. Now it's starting to feel like Christmas--and if the temperatures could climb back up at least to the thirties that'd really be awesome. At least cut our tree down last weekend; while the forty-degree temperature didn't really feel Christmassy, it was certainly a better option than cutting down our tree in the ten-degree weather forecasted for this weekend.

Happy boy with his first Christmas tree!

And how, you might ask, is it going having a Christmas tree with a seven-month old crawling machine? About this well:

"Helping" to arrange the tree bag

Ooh, lights!!

Don't let that innocent face fool you--Mommy had to cut off the branch just to the left of him because he kept trying to wrap his hand around it and pull. Just a little dangerous

Thankfully, he hasn't quite mastered getting into a sitting position from his stomach, so we only have to have the branches and decorations high enough off the ground so that he can't reach them from floor level. He's also discovered that this strange green thing pokes him if he gets too close, so I think that has helped deter him from trying to crawl under or behind it. Now that the novelty of it being new has kind of worn off he hasn't paid it much interest, so that's good. We may have to avoid putting any gifts under the tree this year until we are ready to open them, though, because that might just be a little too tempting for him. Excited for lots more "firsts" with our little buddy this month!