The Christmas Tree

Joshua is such a helpful boy! Our Christmas tree has a foot pedal to turn the lights on and off. Luckily he has not discovered this pedal. Instead when it is time to turn the tree on we say "One, two, three..." and then we clap three times. Magically the tree comes on. Joshua has such a look of wonder when this happens. Now when we say "Come help us turn the tree on," he runs at it clapping. The other night it was bedtime so I turned the tree off and Joshua was stalling on going to sleep. After unsuccessfully rocking him for a few minutes I set him down and he ran to the tree clapping and crying. So I turned the tree back on, scooped him up and he went to sleep looking at the tree.