decorating the tree

we got our christmas tree up (finally!) tonight. it was freezing outside, but the kids were troopers as we headed all the way to monmouth street in downtown newport to pick out the perfect tree. they were pretty excited about the whole process. greta tired quickly of hanging the ornaments. she broke an ornament while at someone's house this week, so she kept saying she only wanted to hang, 'the soft ones'. otto kept taking any ornament he could and shoving it into the branches at the front of the tree. when all the ornaments were hung, i started to close up the ornament bin. when i did this, otto started taking ornaments OFF the tree to put them back in the bin. the tree looks and smells fantastic. and yes, the majority of the ornaments are bunched at the bottom front of the tree. and we wouldn't have it any other way.