We’re so excited about Christmas this year because Sophie is much more aware of everything that’s going on, and we’re hoping she’ll really enjoy the festivities. With this in mind we decided to get the Christmas tree early so that we could appreciate it for longer. On 1^st December we headed out and managed to get a really lovely one for a tenner – I love a bargain! We then made a detour via the supermarket and spent much more than this on new shatterproof decorations; I was worried that if we used the old glass ones and they broke, Sophie might cut herself. Finally we headed home for the great tree unveiling and decorating.

Although it didn’t take long to decide where to put the tree, we then had to spend the next half an hour putting string on to the new baubles. By this time Sophie had lost what little patience she had, and was throwing baubles all over the room – proof if we needed it that we made the right decision buying the shatterproof ones. Eventually the tree decorating commenced and, once she had got the idea, Sophie really joined in and went round the living room retrieving the baubles she had thrown, and handing them to us to put on to the tree. It looked great when we had finished, but Sophie was having so much fun that she wanted to do it all over again, and started to remove all of the baubles she could reach. It has been like this ever since; a constant cycle of Sophie taking off all of the baubles she can reach, then getting fed up of the tricky string, losing her patience and abandoning the idea of putting them back on the tree. I’m finding baubles in all manner of places, including shoved in to toys and in the rabbit cage. If it keeps her amused I guess I can’t complain.

Sophie by the tree: