Christmas Activities #2: Decorating

I don't know about you but there was no way we were really decorating for Christmas this year, what with a toddler, an infant, and our little trip to TX.  But, I couldn't NOT put anything up.  Surely there was something.  Her stocking.  Pictures.  The dancing Santa.  Staples of Christmas, right?  So, the weekend after Thanksgiving (as usual) I made Eric drag it all out.  Considering we didn't put up much it sure was messy!




And you can hardly notice the Christmas stuff amongst all the toys!



But we could have pulled out nothing else as long as we had these...

She loved the dancing Santa and the riding snowman.  Played with both of them until the batteries died on the snowman and she broke an arm off Santa!  I'm working on getting the videos into Picasa!  Funny!

Of course, I did also try to make them wear their hats - Kayla wasn't a fan.

Instead of putting up our lights we go drive around and look at everyone elses.  It's super cute to hear her say "ohhhh.  wow.  pretty" over and over again.  But after 20 minutes she's done and starts saying "home?  eat?"  Guess I need to time it better.  :-)  Can't wait to get the grandparents houses to see their trees.  So far she's taken the ornaments off Chick Fil A's and our friends.  Watch out!  Kayla the destroyer!  I knew there was some logic to not putting one up.  Maybe next year...