setting up christmas

who needs a star when you have a monkey?

we thought we had a star but can't seem to find it.

so our stuffed ornament will do for now.

we haven't set up a christmas tree for a couple years

so it was fun to see all our new ornaments.

whenever we go somewhere we try to pick up an ornament.

those are 8 years worth of ornaments...not to shabby.

emi was sooooo excited to decorate the tree.

when i was un-tangling it or whatever you want to call it

stretching out the limbs :)

she kept hugging it for some odd reason.

i personally can't wait to get a real tree, one day.

we also broke out the kid nativity set.

i wanted to have something for emi to play with so she isn't interested 

in touching my nice willow tree nativity set.

emi has a little ocd like me i think, she wanted to do it just like the picture on the box.

and since this picture, i have purposely messed it up

just to make her get her panties in a wad about me messing it up

just for her to fix it. such a mean mom!

makai could careless. eddie was a big helper.

and if you couldn't tell by this picture

emi needed wanted to get it just right.

 makai doing a little "tummy time"

seriously night and day from when emi did tummy time.

he tolerates it, he doesn't exactly enjoy it but he doesn't cry.

see, getting it just right.

looks just like the picture.

you can see my nativity scene right below on the shelf.

wish i had a cute entry table or somewhere better to put it

but this was the best option for now.

loves these two!

yay! we are all done decorating.

silly face!

 

once we were done decorating emi snuggled with makai on the couch. 

this may sound awful! and come out wrong...just to warn you.

and i can't believe i am saying this "out loud".

but i can't wait for makai to sit up so i can get some cute pictures

with out emi in them. just makai. alone.

there i said it.

seriously so cute.

do i dare also say, i think he is cuter than emi was as a baby.

i love emi. obviously! but he just melts my heart. such a cutie.

i love when she does a real smile.

she loves him so much.

notice the skin color difference. he is very fair.

she too is fair with a little olive color but he is almost vampire white.

this was hilarious.

he was falling over and she was trying so hard to help him up

glad to know she can't lift him

hopefully she remembers that if she ever tries to carry him.

 

after makai was asleep we walked across the street.

he is a light engineer, so we hear.

he has the lights set up to a radio station and go all night

well from when it gets dark until like 10pm.

we have the perfect view from our house, especially emi's room.