It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...

Last weekend, on the coldest day of the year (so far) we went out in the morning to get our Christmas tree.

That's actual frost on the ground.



Later, we went to the annual German Christmas Festival, where Fletcher got to chew on a gingerbread man while crawling up steep cement stairs. It doesn't get any better than this, people.

We told Fletcher that we put the gate up so that Gretchen wouldn't pull ornaments off the tree.





In the evening, we went to the Christmas singalong/tree lighting at the Capitol. Fletcher was more interested in perfecting his mitten removal skills.