Thought I would share with all of you a photo of my Christmas Tree this year - so far. As many of you know I run an inhome childcare which can make our house look very strange at times. I put our tree up over a weekand a half ago with lights only to see how safe I could make it - and by safe, I mean keeping the tree safe from the toddlers I watch. The tree is inside the playyard for protection. After a week of replacing bulbs ( I never even plugged it in just to keep the kiddos safe) and redirecting the toddlers, I finally started plugging it in. We now have added ornaments a few new ones each day mostly from the top. All went well until we finally reached arm's reach level and they realized they could touch something besides boring bulbs. Now I am back to redirecting. At least all of the lower ones are unbreakable. We will finish decorating the tree Friday evening. The photo is in my webshots in the Misc album - last picture.
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We actually started putting the tree in a playpen when our first cat was a kitten because she would climb the tree and turn it over. In the playpen it would just tip and not fall. The first year we had it out of the playpen was when middle DD was four and got her Barbie corvette. She put it in reverse and backed into the tree Christmas morning, wiping out the tree and the porcelain nativity set. We started using the larger playyard after I opened the daycare. Sandy