Message: Well, we waited until December 23rd to put the Christmas Tree up, we just weren't sure we were up to the fight of putting every ornament up not just the to decorate the tree, but also to replace them every time Emmett felt they should be moved. After a trial run evening with Omi and Grumpy the night they put up their tree we decided we could probably handle our tree being up. Emmett didn't try to play with the tree at the grandparents so we thought he'd be good to go at home.
So, when Chris got the tree up and lights out, Emmett thought he should help. It was so cute, I had to snap lots of pictures of it. He followed daddy around the tree holding on to the end of the light strand. Then, he just played with the pile of lights hanging from the tree as daddy put them up.
In an effort to cut down on ornament replacement, we didn't decorate the bottom half of the tree, it looks funny, but it doesn't wear mom and dad out so much.
Because Emmett likes lights so much he has tried to unplug the tree a couple of times, so we now have the plugs blocked. When he wakes up every morning, he goes to the living room and claps at the tree, because he thinks every toy, and light-up item needs a clapper to start it. So we plug all the holiday lights in and he's happy as can be.