We have decorated two Christmas trees already, first Grandma and Poppa's tree with the help of Toby and Grandma. Taane got to use the word baubles quite a bit, which was exciting for him, we had to teach him that they were not balls, in case the pretty things came to a tragic and dangerous end, lucky they have their own special name. Grandma has a cool collection of ornaments from around the world, including this Hello Kitty from Japan.
Then we brought our tree inside, I'm quite proud of it, we grew it from a pine cone in Ruby's garden... and it's getting bigger and stronger every year. We are trying to start some Christmas traditions of our own, the first is we make a new set of decorations every year. This year we made salt ceramic ones, and painted them. We aim to keep one from each year and then we will have a varied set. We only need a few because our tree is so small.
The other tradition is that Grandma buys a special decoration from the Kirks Christmas store, this year we got this lovely Father Christmas, but he's too heavy for our little branches, so he's hanging out at the bottom of the tree. Taane calls him "Christmas Boy"!!
