Christmas Tree

Yesterday we woke up to a lot of snow. Further down there is a picture where Eric stuck a ruler in the snow on our patio table and it came up to just under 9 inches! Oliver was amazed to look out the window at the snow in the morning. He was also excited to get to play in the snow. We spent a little time outside in the snow while Eric shoveled so we could get out of our driveway. Oliver seemed to get the snow thing pretty well. He did better walking through the snow than I thought he might, only a few falls :)

After playing around in the snow and getting shoveled out, we headed to a Christmas tree farm to pick our Christmas tree out. We found one a little faster this year since it was a little bit colder and we didn't want to be outside for too long. Oliver had fun looking at all of the trees and loved it when Eric would shake a tree to get the snow to fall off. It was very pretty to see all the snow and I think it put us in Christmas mode a little more.

The Christmas tree farm also has reindeer so we were able to see the reindeer. Oliver really wanted to pet them, but we opted not to (considering the sign said they might bite your fingers). It was a lot of fun to spend the day doing Christmas things.

When we got home, we decorated our tree. Oliver loved hanging ornaments on the tree. He definitely had a favorite branch and had to be reminded to put ornaments in other spots on the tree. We put tinsel on our tree this year and let Oliver help. If you notice in a picture below, we gave him a bag of tinsel, he pulled it out in a big blob, and put it on his favorite branch. Then he looked at Eric and asked for more tinsel. We did manage to get it thinned out a little bit, but a few parts of the tree are pretty tinsel-heavy.

Oliver also got to decorate his own little tree. He was very excited and proud of it. He put miniature ornaments of Scooby-Doo, Curious George, and Rudolph and Friends. He also put a snowman ornament he got from Aunt Kathy & Uncle Dale on it. The first thing he did this morning when he came out the living room was look for his Christmas tree :)

I go to the doctor on Monday for an appointment- I was 36 weeks on Friday so only 4 more weeks until my due date. We are getting more and more excited and have been getting a few baby things done around the house. I think Oliver is getting excited about being a big brother- he talks about the baby quite a bit and when we go places, he always makes sure we bring the baby along.

The pictures are actually backwards from how they were taken, but I figure you are all smart people and can figure it out :)