Decking the Halls

Our little helper

The "drop zone"

We are still working on our Christmas decorating around here.  Luke is so in to it this year!  It is great fun.  I worked bringing all the boxes up from the shop.  He wanted to open them and take everything out as soon as I would get up the stairs.  That boy definitely loves Christmas as much as his daddy!  We spent most of the day putting the second tree up and getting all the other decorations placed around the house.  Katherine was excited about it, too.  So far she has not bothered the tree or tried to get the ornaments off.

After all that hard work both kids needed baths. They love to play in there.  They would stay for hours if we would let them.  Katherine always cries when we take her out!

Paul got a work call tonight right at bedtime.  He said Luke laid on his pallet in our room while he talked on the phone.  As Paul was talking he could tell that Luke was getting tired.  He looked up at Paul, clutching his Rudolph stuffed animal and asked Paul if he thought Rudolph would be coming with Santa Claus this year and then he fell asleep.  Don't you know he had sweet dreams tonight.  Melt my heart...

A word about why Luke has a pallet in our room.  Can't remember if I have mentioned this before.  Luke has a habit of coming in our room during the night and getting in bed with us.  That is so not fun and not something we wanted to start. So, we put a pallet on the floor. Some nights he comes in, some nights he doesn't.  If he does come in the room we rarely hear him and usually do not know he is there until we get up in the morning.