Quiet day at the house today. The tree is still standing and the kittens are leaving it alone for the most part. We are also running interference on Andrew’s attempts at the tree.
We’ve discovered that Andrew loves the stackable blocks that were Eva’s. We stack them and he destroys the stack. With Allison he smashes the stack and then covers his ears and shrieks with laughter. Last night I stacked about 15 blocks while he wasn’t looking. He turned around, his eyes went wide and he tore across the room to knock the stack to pieces. It is hilarious. I’ve got to get a good video of it.
Allison helps Andrew put an ornament on the tree. We brought the tree into the house last night and it survived the night with the Kittens. The Kittens are really interested in the tree and they are biting off parts of it and sniffing around it.
After I picked Eva up from school and we had lunch it was time to clean up the house for a visit from one of Allison’s friends from High School. She was coming down to see the lights at La Salette. Part of the clean up meant putting the lights on the tree, then Allison and the kids put some ornaments onto the tree while I showered.
Almost immediately Torunn knocked one of the ornaments off the tree and broke it. Luckily it wasn’t a treasured family heirloom one. Allison is thinking that some shatterproof ornaments might be a good idea. Continue reading Putting up the Tree→
