Decorating the Christmas Tree

Yesterday we decorated the Christmas tree in the family room. Although I had all the other decorations up since right after Thanksgiving, I didn't decorate the tree until yesterday. Emme "helped." I probably said "Leave it" 50 times while I put up the first 20 ornaments. Then I realized that Emme wasn't playing with the ornaments, but the ends of the branches of the tree. She settled down and I continued to decorate. Then I noticed that she had left the room and was VERY quiet. A quiet puppy means trouble and I never like her out of my line of sight so I went in search of her. She was laying on her quilt in the living room chewing on a little plastic goose. Where did she get that? I took it away and checked the tree. There near the bottom was a little plastic ornament that used to look like the Hummel Goose Girl. Now it just looks like the girl. I need to buy some plastic glue and make a repair.

This morning Emme came down the stairs by herself after we woke up this morning. Up to this point, I have carried her down the stairs and out so she doesn't make a stop on the way to "hurry up" somewhere she shouldn't. She gets so excited to see Ken in the morning that as I start down the stairs, she begins to wiggle and whine. She is such a handful that I decided that it was time for her to do the stairs by herself before she propelled herself out of my arms halfway down the stairs. So this morning, after I got her out of her crate, she dashed down the stairs by herself, found Ken and then went quickly outside with me. Another milestone toward maturity.