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December 2011 Moms
Ricola
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Christmas tree - when?
Ricola
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When will you put up your Christmas tree? I think we'll probably do it on the first weekend in December this year. I still need to figure out how to dog- and baby proof it!
DS born 12/2011
DD born 03/2014
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Re: Christmas tree - when?
BFP #2 - MC Aug 2012 - D&C w/ complications
LCT - 5.15.14 ~ 9lbs, 22.5 inches
Normally I would say December 10th. It's the day after my birthday and when I consider the season officially started. But we'll be in Disney until the 13th so probably a day or two after we get home.
I'm hoping Charlotte will leave the tree alone. Knowing my kid, she'll probably have all of the ornaments on the floor and be half way up the tree before I can blink.
Fastest year of my life.
I just finished talking to my mom about this! As is tradition we'll go get our tree on this Saturday morning, and we'll put it up and decorate it later that night. Because my mom and brother will be spending Christmas eve and day with us, they'll be completely involved in our tree fun! So we'll be doing dinner and snacks and watch Polar Express while we decorate the tree.
That will be our real tree, we'll be putting up and decorating our fake tree that goes in our bedroom on Thanksgiving night, another tradition.
As for baby proofing, we have a couch and loveseat that make an L in our living room so I'm going to pull them a tad farther apart and put the tree in that open corner so I can put a gate up between the couch corners. As for cat proofing... I have no idea how we'll do that.. he's a wild man and I'm terrified he's going to try and live inside the tree and destroy it.
Hahaha this is why we ultimately decided not to have M's birthday party (also on the 1st) at our house
It was either that or cut 5-10 people from the guest list.. there was no postponing our tree!
Day after Thanksgiving. That's always been the tradition in my family and DH's family.
I have no idea how A is going to react, but we'll deal with issues as they come up. I pulled the Christmas tree down on top of myself when I was a baby (my mom turned her back to answer the phone!), so I figure A can't do much worse than that!
I was afraid that the tree would lose too many needles if we put it up the day after Thanksgiving, since that is so early this year!
Maybe we will do it this weekend...hmmm. I am definitely in the mood to decorate and listen to Christmas music already :-)
We're talking about putting it up this weekend. I'm hoping we actually end up with time to do it because I can't wait to see LO's reaction.
ETA: We're putting the tree in the living room. DS doesn't get to play in that room so I'm not too worried about baby proofing the tree. We did get some pretty shatterproof ornaments for the bottom just in case. If we're having problems with him trying to get to the tree we'll put up our hexagonal pen.
As soon as can convince MH to take me to get one!