The tree is another concern. We're thinking a table top version may be best. Any suggestions?
Monday, December 1, 2008
Do we Dare to Decorate?
I'm waiting until this weekend to get out the Christmas decorations, and wondering how we'll handle it with our little climber/grabber running around. Ruby is definitely learning how to extend her reach! Miles often drags a dining room chair into the kitchen to stand at the island and help cook or watch while we cook. The big chairs are too heavy for Ruby but she can move the little ones and has learned how to use them as step-stools. She can also climb up onto the big chairs to reach just about anything on the dining room table. So our "Ruby-free" zone has been diminished! The mantel will be safe for some decorations, and I may get out the durable nativity, even though she'll probably scatter the pieces, and draw on them if she gets a chance. I'm going to have to limit her coloring to the highchair since she's developed the habit of roaming with a (washable) marker in hand and scribbling on random objects. She hasn't touched the walls (yet) but she has decorated a refrigerator magnet, her highchair, the floor, and scraps of paper she finds lying around.
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Boy does that sound familiar!
I was thinking of putting the tree out in the unfinished addition, that will keep it cool, easier to sweep up droppings and out of her immediate reach.
Kalea also loves to write on everything with her washable markers. We try not to clean up in front of her because she loves to clean as much as to decorate!
Hey, maybe they should use red and green markers!
table top sounds like a good idea. I remember keeping most of the decorations up pretty high on our tree and putting soft ones that they could put on and off around the bottom. I bought a Little People Nativity Set when Morgan was little and it is STILL one of their favorite decorations to put out and play with!
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