kwissmiss time!

Yesterday I spent most of the morning putting up Christmas decorations around the house (all except the tree). Rachel was SO excited and kept going all around the house looking at them, playing with the stuffed animals, and especially with her Little People Nativity set, declaring with glee every few minutes, "It's Kwissmiss Time!"

When it was naptime she asked me sadly, "Kwissmiss over?" I had to try to explain that it's not Christmas day, just Christmas time, and we were getting ready for Christmas day, which wasn't for a few weeks. Time is lost on a two year old.

Today after church we put up our tree, which is what Rachel's been talking about wanting for weeks and weeks, every time we ask her what she hopes Santa brings. We kept trying to tell her that we would put up a tree before Santa came, but again, try explaining timing to a two year old. It doesn't work well. But anyway, she was thrilled today. She was mostly in the way while she "helped," but she had fun trying. We did a little while she was up and the majority of it while she was napping, which made it go much more quickly. After her nap she came down to this

and couldn't have been happier. (Notice her Wonder Pets cape....she wears it almost constantly these days, taking it off only for meals and sleeping.)