What a great day!

This has been such a nice day! The weather didn't really cooperate, but Thea and I had a really wonderful time today. This morning, we went to a park and played for about an hour with our friends Kim and Timmy. It was a bit cold and overcast, but lots of fun. Then we went back to their house where more friends, Diane and Ellie, came over as well. Timmy turned 4 in September, Ellie will be 3 early in December and Thea is 3 1/2. Individually, they can each be quite a handful. Together, they are either fabulous or terrifying. Today, for the most part, they were absolutely terrific. After lunch, we baked cookies that the kids decorated (and ate) with frosting. They had lots of fun and got really messy (always the sign of a successful activity). Afterwards they played (relatively) nicely for a couple hours. Things started to deteriorate rapidly as the inmates got more and more tired, so we packed it in and headed home in the POURING rain. Kim gave us a little tiny tree (24") and we brought it home. We haven't done a tree for the last few years because we have spent the holidays out of town. That will be the case again this year. However, Thea was so enamored of the decorations at Auntie Kim's house, that I thought it couldn't hurt to have a little something here. So the Jewish Mommy accepted the "Thea sized" tree and brought it home to the non-Jewish Daddy and said "Here you go, Honey". Daddy put on some Christmas music while Mommy unearthed the ornaments from the basement and made a quick trip to CVS for a short string of lights. Thea had a WONDERFUL time decorating the tree and I think Daddy did too. I posted some photos here of our little Charlie Brown Christmas Tree in process and all done. I made some yummy dinner and now we are trying to relax and watch the football game but Thea has other high maintenance ideas at the moment....... Oh well. It's just about time to swish her around the tub anyway.