Oh Christmas Tree

Today we finally set up one of our Christmas trees. Last year we set up three of them. This year, one sounds like a good, solid number to me. We had too late of a start and have too much going on to set up the other two in the basement this year. I know I am being cursed and called a scrooge by some of you. All I can say is, sticks and stones....... We had so much fun setting it up and the kids had to be involved with everything. As with any kids, everything has to be equal. A got to be lifted up to put the star on the top of the tree. T got to plug in the star so that it would light up. A got to place the train cars on the track. T got to be the first one to turn on the train. I love these two so much. They make everything so much fun, especially holidays. We were especially excited to see the snow today. We are hoping for a tiny bit more so that we can maybe go sledding or build a snowman next weekend. It would be fine if it did not snow at all in the meantime.

Here they are with their ornaments to go on the tree
They loved hanging the ornaments, but I had to work hard to spread out the clusters that they would sometimes create. They thought it was really cool for all of the ornaments to be really close together.
Who cares about the stinking tree! Check out this train you can play with!

This was an actual position I came upon with the two of them watching the train. They would alternate, and sometimes she would sort of be lying on him. They wanted to watch the train a ton today. They would intermittently go in there to check it out. We did have quite a few, what I call, "Amtrak incidents." The kids would bump the train or the track at just the right moment and it would derail. Luckily, our derailments are fixed in a matter of minutes.

This picture is my favorite. I love my little twins so much. I really love to see them both so content and happy as they do stuff together.

• Whenever I say a prayer on the food we are about to eat, I usually ask something along these lines: "please bless the food to be nourishing, strengthening, and do us the good we are in need of." T has started to say this every time he says a prayer at meal time as well. He says it slightly differently though. He says: "please bless the food to be nursing, strengting, and discurtanetave." I love it every time he says it, AND it has helped me to be absolutely sure I am pronouncing each word very clearly.