It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...

And here are my elves! We had these lights out for about a week before we hung them up.

So we would plug them in and the littles would go to town, making light shows on the wall.

But then we hung them outside the window and things got ugly. Avery was extremely angry that he could see them but not play with them. I had Rich get out our 3 foot tree, and here's why...

Last year we had this bad boy up, in the "dining room" which is actually the living room. This year we've switched rooms again, so there is no place to put it, and I didn't want to mess with it.

Also, last year the littles left it alone for two reasons. They couldn't crawl (well, Noah couldn't, not until Christmas night) let alone walk, and we had the fence up in the living room. We called it the pit. They couldn't get to the tree if they wanted to.

I bought lots of kid friendly ornaments on clearance at the end of last year, and here is the result!

Avery loves it! He moves the ornaments all over the tree, decorating it. Noah likes to hide things in the pot.

So, the toddler proof tree is up and everyone is happy!