Christmas decorating

Tonight, we got our home ready for Christmas. There's nothing like a deadline to get us moving, so we planned a Christmas party for Saturday (for colleagues of Derek's). Last night, Derek set out the Christmas knick-knacks and put up the tree. Tonight, when Maïa got home from daycare, I put the lights and garland in, and Maïa helped put the decorations on the tree. Of course, if it were up to Maïa, all the ornaments would be on one branch. So we've taught her that they have to go on different branches. Then the decorations were on the lower third of the tree. Don't tell Maïa, but I had to move a bunch of them.

So for your viewing enjoyment, here are shots of our tree: pre-decorations, and post-Mom-intervention decorations.