Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Christmas Tree Temptation

This is Luca's first year with a Christmas tree since becoming mobile. Life with the tree started out rough - we built up lots of expectation by telling him how much fun he would have decorating the tree, and then proceeded to prevent him from throwing around the ball ornaments and eating the toxic glitter on the snowflakes. Needless to say, he complained loudly and persistently.

Over time, though, he has come to love the tree even with all of the rules: no throwing the ball ornaments, no pulling on the tree's necklace (the bead garland), and only gentle touches for other ornaments. He walks around the tree, repeating these rules himself ("no touch shiny ball", "no pull neck-a-lus") and has been surprisingly good at following them. The tree lights are also a big hit.

We'll see how he does when presents begin appearing under the tree...


A tempting silver star.



Gentle touches.






"Let me see if anyone's watching..."



2 comments:

zacharybythezoo said...

Oh, your little guy is so gorgeous! So sorry we missed the big TWO last weekend. When are you due with your 2nd, and did you find out the gender? Exciting!

sarah

Hillary said...

Oh he is just so adorable! I love the little back curls...Emmett has them, too. I do remember you - we had dinner at some restaurant when I came to visit right when Emmett was only 2 months or so. Congratulations on your great news, too!