Your Newborn's First Christmas

If you and your family have received the best Christmas gift possible this year with the birth of your new baby, you may be so tired that it's hard to even think about the holidays. You don't need to let the joy of the season pass you by this year. You can celebrate your baby's first Christmas in several ways.

Get baby's first tree. You can have a first tree for you child who is very special without going into the woods and cutting it down, in addition it will not be a strain on your bank account.

Get a small tabletop tree and use small baby items for its decorations. Some of these items can be, brightly colored rattles or rattles decorated with popular characters, binkies, and teething rings. These items will double as Christmas gifts for your baby after Christmas. You tree can be topped with a diaper angel. To create your diaper angel, take a cloth diaper, stuff a handful of cotton balls in the center forming the head, gather the diaper together under the head, then tie with a festive bow or green or red ribbon. Use a yellow pipe cleaner, for the angel's halo, shape a 4-5 inch piece of pipe cleaner into a circle and poke the end through the top of the diaper on the angel head.

You may wish to incorporate this little tree into your family Christmas decorations every year by letting your child decide how it is to be decorated.

Another way to celebrate your baby's first Christmas is to allow your baby to play the "baby Jesus" role in you local church Christmas program. You baby can be the baby wrapped in swaddling clothes, and lay beside Mary and Joseph. A real baby will add life to your Church celebration, and will make a memorable experience for you and your family. If you are not quit ready to go out, you can recreate this scene in your own home and take video, or pictures of the scene. This will be a great memento for your scrapbook.