How To Make Christmas Traditions for Bobby

All of the Elf On The Shelf pictures posted on Facebook and Pinterest make me happy and sad. Happy because it is just so darned cute and I would totally get into it and make it a big deal and sad because Bobby would have no interest in the story and doll at all.  I see all kinds of other fun traditions to start for kids to make Christmas that much more special.  Wrapping up a children's Christmas storybook and letting them open one each night and read the book as a bedtime story. Again, this is something that I personally would love to do, Bobby not so much.  I could go on and on about the different ideas that I have seen mostly from Pinterest.

Making Christmas traditions for Bobby that he actually enjoys is very important to me.  I want him to understand that this time of year is special and full of magic.  I want him to have special Christmas memories.  One tradition that I know that Bobby loves is the Christmas tree.  He LOVES the Christmas tree.  He "helps" me put up the tree with as much help as he can give.  His favorite part of all is the Christmas tree lights.  He lays under the tree and looks up at the lights with complete joy.  He is known to take his morning breakfast over to the tree area and sit on the floor and watch the tree while he eats.

4 Year Old Bobby laying under the Christmas tree

This year I decided that I would make Bobby some Christmas tree ornaments of his own that were unbreakable and give him a small tree that he could decorate and redecorate as he wishes.  Grandma Carolyn gave Bobby a small pre-lit tree that she had from back in the day when she used to work, you know, before her retirement in April.  

Yesterday Grandma Carolyn came to visit and brought the tree, even better she brought a shopping bag full of wonderful food from Murial's for dinner.  Ahhh, thank you Grandma Carolyn.  After we ate dinner, we all took a ride and we dropped Daddy and Uncle Tom off at the WVU Coliseum for a basketball game.  When we got home from dropping off the boys, we got the tree out of the car trunk, brought it in and let Bobby get to work.  Funny enough, he got right to work.  He was happy to get the tree out of the box and standing up.  It is a very small tree and he was finished before I had a chance to get out my camera.  He put the two pieces together himself and plugged the top and bottom together to get the lights on.

He even started fluffing the branches.

I put the tree up onto a small table and gave Bobby the few decorations that we had made for him. In true Bobby form, he lined them up on the tree perfectly.

I went downstairs and got into my Christmas tree ornament storage container and found some that Bobby could put on his tree that are unbreakable.  He wasn't interested in putting them onto the tree at all.  Grandma Carolyn and I helped him finish decorating.  He LOVED it when it was finished.

Hummmmm....is this tree enough for the entire Christmas season.  Do I really need to get out my large tree and put it up too????  

Of course I do silly goose, Bobby can't lay under this tree!!  (Notice how it is on the very corner of the table?  That is the only place that it is acceptable to sit according to Bobby!!  So don't try to put it in the middle of the table because it DOES NOT go there!!).  We will celebrate Thanksgiving before I get the rest of the Christmas decorations out.

If anyone has any fun Christmas traditions that you think that Bobby might enjoy, please feel free to share!