Decking the Halls and side notes

I can't believe we've only been back a week! This last week Andi got her 4th ear infection. . . which means she get's tubes for her birthday, yay! I'm taking her to the ENT on the 18th for a consult so we'll see what he says, but Andi's Dr basically said 4 infections in 6 months it's almost automatic. I've had a cold all week that feels like it's turned into strep or something fun like that today, so I get to go to the Dr this week. Oh, and yesterday was the first day since we've been home that the temperature reached above 30 degrees! I hate winter!
But we did manage to find a Christmas tree this week. It's a fake one, and pre-lit, but it's really big and looks real. The only problem was that when you plug in the lights it's like having a spot light in the living room, it was so bright! So Thad spliced a dimmer into the cord so we can turn the light up and down to optimal brightness ;) And we have a bald area at the bottom of the tree where Andi kept yanking ornaments off, so we finally just took them off within her reach. Not so pretty, but when the lights are on it's nice.
We braved the cold yesterday to put our lights up outside. I wish we had more things to wrap in lights, but it was nice not to have to be in the cold that long. I'll post a pic of our lights when we get a good one. Other than that Christmas shopping is all done and projects are completes. Now Thad just has to finish papers and take finals and we are going back to Bako again ;)