This year decorating for Christmas was a whole new adventure. I wanted Little Bug to help decorate the Christmas Tree, but at the same time, I knew with an 18 month old, it may not be the pleasant experience I was hoping for.

But it was.

Little Bug knew exactly what to do! It was amazing. I pictured chaos but Little Bug opened a box of decorations, chose one, and we would walk to the tree together to find a spot. Little Bug would tell me where she wanted the decoration and I’d help her get it on the tree. It was so much fun and she helped decorate the entire tree!

Dada and Little Bug hung the spinning candy cane ornament that Dave had on his Christmas Tree growing up. It’s one of Little Bug’s favorites along with all the balls!

Our Christmas Tree

Little Bug wakes up every morning and after she has milk (you know, milk is always the number one priority for Little Bug upon waking!) she says, “Yites!” (“Lights!”) She wants the Christmas Tree lights turned on.

We also have lights on garland. One morning we were basically going to eat breakfast and leave the house so I wasn’t going to bother with turning on the Christmas lights.

Little Bug was sitting at the table eating her breakfast when I heard, “Yites! Yites!” I turned to Little Bug and saw her pointing at the Christmas Tree. So I turned the lights on for her but didn’t turn the garland lights on.

That wasn’t okay with Little Bug. She started saying, “Yites!” and pointed to the garland! So I turned all the Christmas lights on and we enjoyed them for the 15 minutes we were home that morning.

Later, I tried to get some pictures of Little Bug by the tree in her Christmas dress.

That, as you can see from the picture above, didn’t go so well.

Hopefully, next week when we get her professional Christmas/18 month photos taken, we will get something better than a little booty running away!

- Elaine