Finally after about thirty minutes of looking around Bette stopped inspecting and finally chose one.  This was THE ONE.  The one that would house the presents.  Bette picked Liz up so she could see.

“See this one babysee how its nice and fulland smell thatthe smell is what tells you these are different from the Pine treesand see how the branches are more separatedthat’s so mommy can hang more stuff on themand see how these needles have a line down the middlethat’s how you can tell this is a firokay?”

“Okay mommy”

Bette was about to pay for the tree when Liz suddenly stopped her.

“Wait mommy”

“What?”

Liz dragged Bette over to another area and Bette called over her shoulder to the guy to hold that tree and that she would be right back to pay for it.  Liz finally stopped walking and pointed.

“Can we get one of those?”

Bette’s eyebrows ran together so fast they almost fell off of her forehead.  Liz had dragged her to the “short tree” section where the biggest one was like 4 feet tall.  And worse yetthey were all Pinethis just wasn’t going to do.  Bette bent down and looked at Liz square in the eye

“Baby these are great and maybe next yearbut this year we are going to have the big one okay?”

“But”

“Just think Lizthe bigger the tree the more presents you get”

Liz beamed and Bette knew she had won the battle.  Liz looked longingly at the small tree’s for a second more then followed Bette back to the big tree section.  A few minutes later the tree was bought and paid for and they were heading home.  The entire way home Liz was talking about the little trees and Bette actually found it funny that Liz was so into treesmaybe she could even pass the torch to Liz some dayhmmmmaybe not.

“We’re home!!!”

Tina and Sky were waiting anxiously for the arrival of the tree and when Tina saw it she fell in love with it.  Bette and Tina set about getting the tree together and decorating it as Liz and Sky watched from the couch both pooped just from seeing their mommy’s running around.  Liz was getting grumpy because she had to endure such craziness at the tree lot and now she couldn’t even touch the damn thing.  She was bored.  She hopped down from the couch and went to her room.  When she returned she had a surprise for her mommies.

“Okay mommyits time for the real tree inspector”

Liz set Bob free who ran up the tree as fast as he could.  Bette and Tina started yelling and hollering for Bob to get out but he finally had some quiet space and he was not leaving. 

“LIZWhy did you do that?”

“Well you said we were tree inspectorsand I thought Bob was an honorary tree inspectorand he likes living in there”

Bette and Tina looked ready to kill Liz and Sky found the entire situation hilarious.  He was laughing and poking the tree trying to see Bob the tree inspector.  Bette and Tina just looked from Liz to Sky to the Treeand sighed.  They realized that maybe they should have included Liz and Sky a little morebut when they got going on the decorating thingthey kind of tuned everything else out. 

“Lizwhen you finally get Bob out of there please don’t bring him by the tree again okay?”

“Okaysorry mommy”

“It’s okay sweetienow we need to figure out how to get him out so we can turn the lights on”

“Bob?”

Bob wasn’t moving.  He found peace and quiet and he was happy to stay right where he was.  He could see Bette peering in and he laughed to himself.  ‘Hahahatry and get me now’

Merry Christmas everyone!