Taking Down the Christmas Tree

After we got back from our trip to California we still had all of our Christmas decorations up and Alden and I left them up for at least one more week before finally deciding that it was time to take everything down and put it away.  Alden was very sad to see the tree go but he was also an amazing helper when it came to getting ornaments off the tree.  He would take the ornaments off and bring them over to me and then I would put them in the boxes.  Here are some pictures of Alden being my big helper.

This picture also shows how Alden wanted to have his video of Daddy on in the background the whole time that we were taking ornaments down.  Every time the video would end he would ask for me to turn it on again.  I think he was just enjoying hearing Daddy's voice.

This was Alden getting ornaments carefully off of the tree.

He would help me put the less fragile ornaments in boxes and hand me the fragile ones and then go back to get more.

So if you look closely at these pictures you can see Alden is in the back corner behind the tree.  He would crawl back there to get the ornaments off that side of the tree.

Here he is crawling out from the back corner again.  I was so grateful to have such a big helper!