It's beginning to feel a lot like Christmas...

 

Here's a few pictures of Jakob hanging his ornaments on the tree. He actually really liked helping put the ornaments up, for at least the first 4 or 5 and then I quickly lost his attention to something else. His daddy helped for about the same amount of time, then I lost his attention to football. Short attention span seems to be a man thing :) I put out a few decorations around the house, but didn't want to tempt Jakob to getting into too much trouble, so most of them are still out in the garage. We got a real tree this year. This is the first year we've had a real tree since our first year of marriage when we had the Christmas tree that fell over and I vowed we'd never buy one again. You just cannot beat a real tree. They smell awesome and they just look so pretty. The weather down here has been pretty cold. (yes, I know cold is a relative term :) Last night it did get down into the 20's and we actually turned our heater on. The high for today is 64, I think. Perfect weather to remind you that Christmas is right around the corner. I have talked to a couple of you from up north, and let me say a high in the 30's...well, I'm glad it's you living up there and not me. There must be a reason why I was moved back down to Florida (lol). Last night we watched "A Charlie Brown Christmas" which is such a cute movie. Even after all the times I've heard it, it still feels so special to hear the story of Jesus birth from Luke chapter 2 especially on television where most people would rather forget about Jesus and all he came to do. It has been a little difficult thinking of things to get Jakob for Christmas. The child really doesn't need much of anything. The things he really needs (like a bookshelf for his tons of books) doesn't seem like a really fun Christmas present. He is really into Toy Story right now. It's all he wants to watch (he brings me the movie all the time) and at my mom's house he was constantly carrying a toy story character around. My mom has bought him Buzz and Woody, and I really wanted to get him Bullseye, but Toy Story is really popular this year and I cannot find the plush bullseye that they released when Toy Story 2 came out. Actually, you can find them, but people are wanting 80-100 bucks for them ( I guess Toy Story is the thing this year), and I'm not paying that. I will wait a while and when they are not so expensive I can (hopefully) get him Bullseye. Other than that I think we are going to get him a little child size guitar, because he always wants to play his Daddys guitar. Some chunky puzzles, because he loves shapes and putting things together. That's about where my list stops right now. We really want to get him a small swing set, but we have to talk to our landlord about that. We'll see. I hope that you are all having a good week and staying warm :)