On the third day of Christmas...

...we have photos of our tree-decorating evening. Sophie enjoyed helping with the beads


but got bored pretty quickly and joined her big sister on the couch to watch a Christmas movie instead.


EJ does like putting the star on top each year. This year, we remembered to have her do it BEFORE all the other ornaments were hung!

We asked Sophie where the star was, and she showed us:

Here's Sophie hanging a Christmas ornament for the very first time!

Then, she got all snuggled in her pjs and went to work.


Of course, most of her ornaments ended up in the same place. On the same branch, actually:

What I remember most about this evening is that the power went out about an hour after the last photo was taken.

Yesterday was a great day - my cousin and her kids came up for a few hours and had lunch with us. K and Dad put a new light in the kitchen (the older fixture was out of commission for the past few weeks), and then our friends J and B from San Francisco (formerly of NH) stopped in for a little while since they were in the area this week. It was so nice to see them! We went out for our favorite pizza last night and just relaxed.

Today, EJ and I are heading into Boston. Santa brings theater tickets almost every year, and this year was no exception. There was an envelope slid under EJ's door with two tickets for "How the Grinch Stole Christmas, the musical" for this afternoon's matinee. We also need to make a quick stop at the Crocs store in Fanieul Hall, as Santa brought EJ a pair of Electric Blue Mammoth crocs (the ones with the fur lining), but they are the wrong size!