If Your Nose Gets Stuffy

The weekend after Thanksgiving we set up our Christmas decorations. Julia has loved every minute of it and has been helping a great deal, often times in her own special little way.
Here she is putting the flowers in the tree. I was actually impressed with how well she did. There of course were times she put like five ornaments on the same limb, or wore the tree skirt around the house like a cape, or had the nativity scene intermixed with her princesses but overall she really did great.
Bryan even lit up the outside of the house with a couple of great helpers.
The excitement of having our house illuminated was so magical...
That was until they had to come inside because it was too cold, and then it became devastatingly unfair.

The cruelty of it all. She would have spent the entire night outside if I would have let her.

Julia has gotten into some interesting decoration ideas. The first being the arranging of the stockings she took upon herself.As you can see they made it to corners of frames, Santa's feet and around candles. When you don't have a chimney you make it work and Julia knows how to make it work. Julia came down the other day with this new ornament she had made while she was "sleeping."

She actually assembled an ornament with a bulb syringe, baby headband, hair bow and a few bobby pins to hold it all together. It is what you would call a "functional ornament." If you ever have a stuffy nose...problem solved!
Future ornament genius in the making if you ask me. Now I need to take a picture of the makeshift ornaments she has hanging in her room. This girl has got the Christmas spirit.