Merry Chris...WHAT?!?!

Ok, we all love Christmas around here...some of us REALLY, REALLY love it...say, ERIC...who seems to be rubbing off on Elena. Tradition for my family was have Turkey Dinner on Thanksgiving and then the guys watch TV and the girls decorate for Christmas. On Eric's side, his parents would have the house all done up when they got home from school for Thanksgiving break and visiting. For some reason, that time frame keeps backing up earlier and earlier, little by little for us. This weekend Eric said we should "shop" for a little tree for Elena's room. Translation: Let's start decorating now!!! So far, it's still just her tree in her room. We bought a cute little tree that would look nice pretty much anywhere in the case she grew out of that sort of thing or mayhem by a 3 year old would possibly ensue once it was there, and we went without decorations for safety. Elena was overjoyed with the new tree. We put her down for a nap and after some time checked on her to find that not only was she not sleeping she had taken all of the marker caps off her Color Wonders and decorated her tree with them. Those, and a couple of stuffed mice, a cell phone holder, a post card, a miniature My Little Pony from a Happy Meal, and wooden back massage balls, I'm sure there's more you all can find...how, um, festive! So here's shots of that...Elena also put things to hang on the tree first in her Halloween basket, and then transferred them onto the tree.