It's Beginning to Look a lot like CHRISTMAS!

Last night my parents picked up Keegan and took her to Light Up St. Matthews at Brown Park. While they were out Fiona was sleeping, so Ryan and I took the rare "Childless" opportunity to decorate the house for Christmas. We put up the tree and various other decorations around the house and outside too. When Keegan came home she let out a loud "OHHHHHHHHHH" and pointed to the tree which only had lights and beads on it so far. We love her overly excited reactions to everything, she gets it from her Mommy and Daddy. Of course we are concerned that she will attack the tree, pulling/breaking ornaments and even pushing the tree over, so we have a tiny little tree that we call "Keegan's Tree". This tree is bright green and shiny. This is what we are going to use to help distract her from the "big" tree. Whenever she goes near or acts like she is going to dive into the "big" tree, we tell her to play with "Keegan's tree". It has worked so far, but we will see how the rest of December goes! We also put most of the breakable ornaments out of reach. All the wooden and old hand-made ornaments from Ryan and my childhood are at the bottom for her to play with!

We are especially excited for this Holiday season because Keegan is a little older and will understand a little more than last year when she was only 6 months old. We can't wait for her to see all the presents and tear off the wrapping paper. Fiona will only be about 4 months when Christmas arrives, so she will not be as excited, but we know how much fun the girls have in store for future Christmas's.

Oh, and the visit to Santa... This could be interesting. Since Keegan is terrified of my Santa Nutcracker and Santa "doll", I am not so sure Santa will go over so well. I can only imagine the scream she will let out when we try to sit her on a large stranger's lap who is dressed in a red suit, has a large white beard and jolly loud laugh! I will make sure to post pictures and video of that one! HA!