Christmas Festivities Begin!

Santa was visiting on Saturday so we decided to give him another chance, hoping Fletcher would like him just a little bit more than last year.  Success!  Well, kind of...he at least didn't cry. This kid spends all day laughing and playing, and then the second he sees a camera, acts like he's being grossly inconvenienced.  It's okay, he's still cute :)  He sat on Santa's lap for as long as we wanted, and then went right for the candy canes at Santa's feet.  Smart kid.  Once he was good and sticky, we took him to pick out a Christmas tree.  He wanted all of them, but decided on one we thought was pretty great...until we got home and realized it was too big for the tree stand.  Hence, the leaning tree.  It's okay though, it kind of makes Christmas more perfect.  I love imperfections and being able to say things like, "remember the year we got the too big tree that fell over on Christmas morning?" and "remember that time we took Fletcher to pick out a tree but he was covered in sugar and left with pine needles stuck to his face?" Fletcher enjoyed putting one ornament on the tree, which worked for me. I had envisioned him removing every ornament that I added. And he hasn't found the ridiculous pile of Santa presents. Granted, they're all still in Amazon boxes, so he probably doesn't realize that they're full of goodies, but I have no idea what we'll do next year when we actually have to hide everything.  We don't exactly have storage space. Anyway, the tree up and decorated makes us very happy.  Jesse expects Christmas music to be playing when he arrives home every night, so the house has been pretty festive all week. I can't believe we're only two weeks away from the big day!