O Christmas Tree, O Christmas Tree

We put our Christmas tree up Thanksgiving weekend.  The kids have been so excited to help.  They even got into fluffing the branches.  Our Christmas tree needs each and every.single.branch fluffed out and put on.  Not exactly it's best quality but it is a pretty nice looking (fake) tree once it's together.  We had Christmas jammies in their stockings for when they pulled those out.  I gave them jammies at Christmas, last year, and felt that was silly because then it wasn't Christmas anymore.  So we decided to start doing it at Thanksgiving.  Then they could wear them the whole Christmas season.  

Confession::I have not done the laundry since BEFORE Thanksgiving (writing this on December 19, just post-dated it).  So go ahead and ask if they have worn their Christmas jammies SINCE the first couple days after this.  NOPE.  Eric and I both HATE laundry.  We have lots of underwear at the Fitzgerald's.  And you get two uses if you turn them inside out.  KIDDING.

Cute little twinkies putting on their first ornaments.  Don't you love Joelle's cheeser face?!

Pretty girl hanging her first ornament for the year

Show me your crazy face..

Why, oh why, do the crazy face pictures always have to turn out "better" than the normal ones?!  Ha.

Our pretty tree is all up.  The ornaments get moved all the time.  Sir Brecken takes care of that.  I've stopped asking him to not touch them.  They aren't breakable.  Now his only requirement is to put them back on.  He always wants them at the top too.  So he pushes the ottoman over, climbs up and puts them "up high."  So there's a big cluster at the top and on the left side.  Everything else is pretty sparse.  Who cares anyways?!  Not me.

Doll Beds...

...or people beds.  Either one.

Joelle loves to climb in her little doll bed and hold her doll.  Good thing Papa made them strong.  Then everyone else sees her doing it and they have to do it too;)

I'm not quite sure if Joelle was being kind here or not.  But please do not notice Brecken's blanket.

Some of what we have been doing…

We have been crafting up a storm lately.  Adelyn got it in her head we had to make sock puppets.  So one morning we set out to make them.  The kids thoroughly got into it.  Adelyn stringing her hair on and putting jewels on her lady.  Eric was afraid I used all his socks.  Just so you know, it was a pair of mine and one lone sock of his.

Joelle hairing hers up.  Isn't her haircut so cute?!  I need to cut it again.

"Oh no!  She fell over!"

 It took 2 days for all the glue and sparkles to dry.  I'm sure you understand.  Then Brecken promptly picked off the eyes and his jewels.  So I glued them back on.  Then he picked them off again AND his hair.  So I threw it away when he wasn't looking.  He didn't care.

The girls, however, love to put on puppet shows and run around with them on their hands.  They are beyond adorable.

This picture is only included because the hair on the doll cracks me up.  And creeps me out..

 We also worked on making thankful turkeys.

Adelyn is thankful for:: trees, mommy, uncle, josh (on two fingers because she's thankful for both Uncle Josh's.  I can not make this up.) and Nana.  Daddy was sad he didn't get a finger..

Brecken is thankful for:: love, grass, daddy, mommy and uncle josh.

Joelle is thankful for:: mommy, uncle josh, daddy, grandma and baby dolls.

It's a lot of work crafting with my kiddos.  And messy.  But they have so much fun.  And who really cares if there is a little bit of glue on the table anyways?!  We are making memories.

Adelyn is currently in the process of making an adorable book.  I may be regretting how many pages I stapled together but she is totally loving it.