The Tree Is Up!

The tree is not only up, it has been for over a week. The children and opa helped me put it up and decorate it last Wednesday evening. Because we have a fourteen month old in the household, I did not put any glass ornaments on the tree. I put the odds at even that Evan will pull the tree down before Christmas Day. I gave the children some less fragile ornaments to place on the lower branches that Evan can reach. Turns out he can reach a lot higher than we anticipated. He has even figured out that climbing on the chair next to the tree gives him higher access. He was in bed when we put the tree up and decorated it. The next morning he just looked at the tree and the ornaments. On subsequent days he pulled ornaments off the tree--four, then six, then everything he could reach. Even though we put back on many of the ornaments that he takes off, the poor tree is looking very bare on the lower one third and I'm tired of replacing hooks and hanging loops that he rips off. It's going to be a long three weeks until Christmas.