It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

I'm usually the one bugging Matt to put up the Christmas tree as soon as Halloween is over but for some reason I just wasn't as anxious this year.  I think part of it has to do with the fact that I don't even have our pictures up on the wall (since moving back at the end of August!) I keep waiting for "nesting" to start but so far I'm too exhausted to care. Having said all this, we put the tree up December first (which is still respectable) but it was due to Matt's excitement and not my own.

This is William's third Christmas but the tree will forever remind me of that first one. I was up until the wee hours with him, nursing by the lights, and remember how much he loved staring at them.

This is the first Christmas that he was able to help decorate the tree.

actually putting them on a branch proved to be harder for his dexterity than he'd planned, so he soon found a branch that could work as a sort of ledge. He placed as many orniments as he could there.

We went with it.

Nothing has changed- he still loves the tree. 

The first morning he woke up and ran out to turn the lights on and said, "Kiss-mass tree!" he then kissed the tree and turned to me and said "Kiss the tree?"

William has been enjoying the seasons traditions and asks to watch the "gernch" (Grinch cartoon) almost everyday and will sing Jingle Bells every chance he gets.

"jingle bell, jingle bell, jingle bell, fun, hey!"

Adding to the Christmas feel, we woke up to snow this morning!

We wanted to surprise William so we left all the blinds closed until we were all bundled up and ready. We opened the door and William exclaimed, "ooooh!"

The snow was even more magical with the campus closed and Matt's client meeting cancelled. 

Once William discovered that you could mold the snow into balls, it was even more impressive.

The snow was pretty flakey in the morning but we managed to create a few respectable snowballs.

I didn't know how William would do having to wear a hat and mittens- he's not an accessory man. He did rip of his mittens and dive his fingers into the snow once. He quickly learned of their usefulness and kept them on the rest of the time. I would also like to document that the hat he is wearing was given to us as a gift for our current unborn child. It's labeled 6-12 months and was a little big for him. His head is in the 12th percentile ahah. 

William and Matt made snow angles too, although William was less impressed with that snow activity.

Because it defiantly wasn't packing snow at 1030 this morning, this little snow man was quite the engineering miracle. The hat I actually made at a knitting class last month and we decided it was a perfect  fit. William mostly wanted to knock it down but was moderately impressed with the finished product.

After that we went straight inside for some hot cocoa and watched The Grinch. 

Snow is so much more fun when it's a novelty and the whole city shuts down after 5 inches fall.