well, we put up the tree again.  some of you might remember last year’s christmas tree caper–and you understand why i haven’t had high hopes of a tree lasting.  also, you know why i have no ornaments on my tree.  so far the tree has only gotten knocked over once since it was put up on sunday, so that’s good.  it also hasn’t been dragged to another room yet, so we’re off to a promising start.

ben surprisingly pretty much leaves the tree alone, but stuart…well, stuart is another story.  he’s done pretty well, but still has shown his curiosity in the tree…

meanwhile, ben sat in his cat box (remember the cord charging station?)