Kid Trees

Roger and I decided to let the kids have their own trees in their rooms this year.
While our new house does not have a perfect window for the family tree, it does have window seats in the kids' bedrooms that are the perfect place for small trees.
Here is Jaxon's "Bus" tree.*

 I wanted them to make some of the decorations for their trees. Jaxon helped me make a garland for his out of torn strips of checkered fabric. He loves making stuff and did about 1/3 of the garland by himself before I started helping him so we could get it done by bedtime.

I made a couple of checkered flags for the topper. We added shattterproof red balls and then he decorated the rest of it with his own toy cars (and planes lol).

*The Disney Cars movie came out the year that Jaxon was born. He first saw it when he was about a year old and his name for the movie and for the character of  Lightening McQueen was "bus". We have no idea why. I've watched the move a thousand times by now and I still can't figure out why he calls it Bus. Still! And he can't explain why either. He just says there are two names.

Emily is all about bright colors. And I think her tree turned out exactly right for her and for her room.

I helped her make a pom pom ball garland while we watched a movie last night.

And she made a tutu style tulle tree skirt by herself.
Then we just added pink, green and silver shatterproof ornaments. She really wanted some orange ones, but we couldn't find any. Maybe next year.

Her tree is especially pretty at night ...

I'll get the rest of the non-tree decorating done today. I need to get on to that pre-Christmas to do list!