Decking the Walls

After a marathon nap this afternoon (4 hours! Apparently Mr. Excitement stayed up a bit late at his sleepover last night), C and I finally got our Christmas decorating done. He's such a stud, he even climbed the ladder and brought the tree down from the storage shelf all by himself this year. And since you're bound to notice, yes we did steal Charlies Brown's tree. All 46 inches of it.

C then proceeded to very intentionally decorate our tree, for example, all the Santas had to be at the top. Together.
After that he moved on to the candy cane hanging. Let's see, there are candy canes on the lamp, the table and oh yes, the wall. He thought my idea of hanging them on the tree wasn't quite creative enough.
After the tree I let him pull out the things he wanted to decorate with. He found a hooked wall hanging made by my Grandpa, it's shaped like a stocking and says "NOEL" at the top.
C: Why does this say "nole"?
Me: It says noel
C: Why does it say that, it has an "L", right there?
Me: No, it doesn't say "no L", it says noel, like (and start singing noel, noel)
C: Oh, I know why. Because everyone is sick.
Me: Huh?
C: No well, no well. That means they're sick.

Next came the stockings and I mentioned that we should buy new stocking holders, since we have 3 stockings now. But C didn't seem to think that was a problem.

C: Here, I can share my holder with "A".

Me: That's very kind of you.

C: I'm just being a big brother. Here, let's move "A"s stocking over to this spot, so he can be nice and warm close to the fire.

So there they are, two stockings, all set. Time to bake some cookies!