Merry Making

 Our little elves (and their Mama) have been busy making our home merry and bright!

We've hung stockings, put up lights, hung up all of H's Christmas artwork from school, put up our decorations, and more!

 

We put up the Advent calendar (H and SweetHart have been calling each other "on the Pad" (on the iPod) each day and hang up that days ornament from our calendar and hers too!  C even gets a turn every couple of days!

 We picked up a tree after ice skating and I put lights on during nap time and hung the ornaments after everyone was awake.  The boys took their job of decorating the tree very seriously.  They hung about twenty or so ornaments between the two of them and they hung all twenty of them within the same area on the tree.  Sometimes a few of them on the same branch!

 Daddy got home just in time to help H hang the star on top.  H was so excited about being the one to put the star on top!  When we were talking about decorating the tree, he put on his most mature face, did a whole lot of eye blinking and told me all about it!

 The boys area.

H is very into Christmas and our preparations for it this year, which makes it a lot more fun for me too!  C really has no idea what is going on, but likes all of the excitement.  

We also got out our nativity.  When I ordered the set last year, it didn't come with the stable.  We have some excellent wood working neighbors, and I asked them if they could make me a simple A frame for a stable, and they came back with this!  I will take a better picture of it, but there is a fenced in area for the animals, a cute stable with an awesome star on top!  I am so glad I asked them to do this!  These are on the counter where we eat and H likes to move them around.  For awhile all of the people - the shepherd, wisemen and angel were all watching the animals.  But lately H has been arranging them in a Heavenly huddle.  H told me "Jovis (Joseph) feels sad because there is no room for him."  But his buddy, Mary, made a little space and he was happy again....  H likes to tell me how the Angel "Abriel" says "You will have a baby."

He's been singing Happy Birthday to Baby Jesus for months now and says we should make a cake for him with chocolate chips, peaches and raisins.  Anyone have a recipe for that?