On the First Day of Christmas...

Today we set up the tree...

Opened the Christmas trunk...

Maximo put on about 85% of the ornaments and we organized the Christmas books -

and Max enjoyed reading through them all day - and listening to Nana read "Frosty the Snowman" to him over and over and over again.  (He's definitely more into it this year.)

As always, Maximo graced us with a few interludes throughout the day:

Then Max had a birthday party to go to, then we came back home to a playdate and dinner with Kirsten and the girls.

We made these lovely delights (I need to add the stick arms, but the icing isn't dry enough yet):

And soon we'll have visions of sugarplums dancing in our heads.

I love the first two weeks of "Christmas", then I'm totally over it!  Which will work out perfectly this year, as we head to Phuket, Thailand on the 19th!