Thankful Tree

So this is the first year that Joshua is "aware" and can conciously remember things and traditions, so Jason and I are working on starting cool little traditions with our own little family for holidays and stuff. Since Thanksgiving is tomorrow and I grew up with such a strong family tradition of being thankful for my family, I thought it would be nice if Joshua made a "thankful tree" that he can have as our centerpiece during the dinner.

I wrote our immediate family's names on each leaf and put some glue on the back and let him stick the leaves wherever he wanted to to make the tree. As we put glue on each leaf I read it to him and we said a little prayer for each person whose name we came across. We thanked God for putting them in our lives and for them being special to us. When it was all put together I told him - "See, all together we make this tree - we are all a part of a family and we all fit together and support each other. Each one of these people love you very much"

We haven't figured out what we're going to do for Christmas yet, but we have some time still for that one.