Christmas Tree

This year our tree was up but not decorated for over a week, and Zoe and Ella were very eager to get it 'fancy'.  So while I was cleaning up after dinner one night they started sorting ornaments, which was very entertaining just to listen to.  They had a 'santa' pile, a 'skinny santa' pile, a 'reindeer ornament' pile, a 'pictures of us' pile, a 'broken things' pile and a 'something' pile (for those ornaments they couldn't find adjectives for), an 'old' pile (for ornaments they colored last year) and a 'make noise' pile.

Then they started to add the ornaments to the tree, filling it fully as high as they could reach ....

... and after getting a chair they added the rest of the ornaments to the upper part of the tree ....

The final result was pretty awesome.

I loved how they chose to group their ornaments and where they put them on the tree.  Each one was placed in a specific spot for a specific reason, like Buzzy the Bumble that Tom bought to help when they get shots -- they thought it should go close to Santa's pants:



Or their current picture with Santa should go towards the top of the tree:



Most interesting to me was how they grouped all the ornaments that were similar or the same, together in the same areas.  Like these paper-colored ornaments from last year:

Or their two angel ornaments:

Or their two Santa Bears along with a mini-Santa:

The same for their Little Ballerinas:

And their Raggedy Anns:

I was happy to see the silly monster face guy made an appearance again from last year ....

.... and so did the hand-drawn and colored with crayons rudolph:

But the ornament that made me laugh each time I saw it was this one:



Santa's Hat.  Which was supposed to be with his jacket and pants but instead was placed by itself, sticking straight out from a branch of the tree.  I just love it.

The little things really can make me very very happy : )