Adventures with Noah and Anna

N&A:  Notice anything different about our tree?  You don't, do you?  Neither did anybody else (even a Forest Service Silviculturist) until they were told that Papa made this tree.  He brought many small branches home from Home Depot, drilled holes in a bigger branch, and stuck the small branches into the holes.  It wilted a little sooner than a real tree, but it was otherwise very convincing.  Why did he do this?  We read about it in a book we really liked:  Petterson kriegt Weihnachtsbesuch (Petterson gets a Christmas visit) by Sven Nordquist.


A:  This is what was in that package from the previous photo -- a baby doll from Oma and Opa.  I love this baby doll, and my friend Oliver really loves this baby doll.