Christmas Greenery

We got our tree on Saturday and on Sunday we decorated it and the house. At one point during the decorating Brad was outside working on lights and I was in the bathroom putting up a little tree while the children played in the living room. Hudson comes to me and says," Mom come see the lambs I put in the train." Lambs? I know we don't have that many lamb decorations so I came to investigate. Well, he didn't say 'lambs' he said 'limbs'. This is what I found when I came to see his project:

Note said train full of limbs. Note branch cracked and hanging the opposite direction from the others. Note pruning clippers. Note preschooler left unattended.

For the record, the clippers were up and out of his way but he helped himself to them then helped himself to clippings from the tree which he clipped himself!! We had a discussion about how sharp and strong the clippers are and how he was not to use them again because we like all of 10 of his fingers and don't want any of them to disappear right now.  And yes our tree is up on a table. This is the third year we've taken this approach and so far we've managed to keep our tree and ornaments intact despite a toddler and a preschooler in the house. Maybe next year the kids will be old enough for us to put the full-length tree back in use. By then Hudson will have worked up to chainsaw use which will come in handy when we freshen the trunk to set in the stand.