A Charlie Brown...oh, Swaney...Christmas Tree

On Saturday after Thanksgiving, Ed and I invited Charlie over to help decorate our Christmas tree.   Charlie was in charge of hanging the candy canes, of course.

No need to even take off your jacket...just get started with the candy canes!

And don't waste time hanging them all over the place.  Easier to get to this way.

 Also in charge of eating the marshmallow chocolate Santa.

And in charge of unpacking one of the Nativity sets.

This is Charlie's version of the Christmas story.  The Holy Family needed a tree, you notice.  
And Santa had to fly by on his way around the world.  

And when the whole set was out, Charlie asked, "Where's God?"  
So we had a chat about Baby Jesus being God.  That didn't quite work, 
so Charlie hunted until he found "God and His Ladies", shown above.  
I think it's the beard that convinced him.   :)
By the way, the Lady on the left, holding the "flallers" is getting married, according to Charlie.

He was a great help, bringing ornaments to me to hang on the tree, and hanging a lot of them himself.

The only breakage of the day was done by Grandpa!!  Poor Joseph, from the Nativity set, had his hand amputated in a severe fall, and Joe's donkey got its tail cropped.  But, thanks to Gorilla Glue, or as Charlie calls it, Monkey Glue, Joe and his ride are almost as good as new.  The donkey is also missing an ear, but that was eaten several years ago by Theo (RIP, Theo.  We miss you, you big Christmas ornament eater, you.)

After the big decorating session, we went to Kate's in North Everett for a burger and fries.  We were sitting there waiting for our meal, just chatting with Charlie and asking him questions.  Finally he said, "OK, that's enough talking."

Well!

We had a good laugh at that.

It was a truly Charlie Swaney Day.