The Feldman Files: Deck The Halls....

So, as I said in the last post, we got home early Sunday morning so we could decorate the house inside and out for Christmas. Since, we really didn't do a tree last year or anything too decorative I was very excited for Joshua to experience trimming the tree and seeing all the lights outside! Christmas is my favorite time of year, it just makes you feel good all over no matter what kind of mood you are in. Anyway, when we got home we began to decorate the outside with lights and garland. Joshua was busy running around and checking everything out and playing in the grass. Dan was on the roof hanging the lights and, I was well you know, supervising..lol. We got most of the decorations up just in time, because as soon as we plugged in the lights to see if they all worked the bottom fell out of the sky. So, it was perfect timing. Later that night we turned on some Christmas music and began to trim the tree. Joshua was so excited! We have a little tradition with buying an ornament each year to hang on the tree and this year Joshua picked out our ornament for 2009. It is Elmo hugging a Christmas tree and Joshua got to be the first one to hang an ornament, his Elmo ornament. He got so tickled at how they hung off the branches. We continued to trim the tree and Joshua lost interest after he hung a few more ornaments. It was a good evening all and all. We had to move a few ornaments around because Joshua kept thinking that the round ornaments were balls and he kept hitting them. He loves to go up to the tree and ring all the ornaments that have bells in them(which there are a few). Joshua loves the tree and the lights. I plugged in the lights tonight and he clapped and said "yay, Christmas!" lol. Sunday, I told him that we were going to decorate the Christmas tree and out of the blue, he answered back, "christmas?" I was so shocked, so of course I tried a few more holiday words, and this is what he said...Christmas (kissmas), Santa(ssss-ta), Dredel(da-del), and Hannukah(kannukah). Of course there are pictures below for your viewing pleasure!!