On the second day of Christmas, we gave James beloved squirrels and birds their Christmas treats. I thought this was such a great idea when I saw this family’s Christmas for the animals, and thought, “Someday when we live out in the woods and have chickens and goats, we’ll do that.” But then remembered that we do in fact have animals here in Lansdowne, and James wakes up every morning and talks to the squirrels outside his window. So today was their Christmas feast.

After a lazy morning snuggling with his new doggy…

James and Mama got to work making an animal feast. Papa popped us some popcorn, and James handed the popcorn and cranberries to Mama to string (although he seemed to have a “one for you, three for me” kind of system).

After stringing our popcorn and cranberries, we made a terrific mess smearing pinecones with peanut butter and rolling them in birdseed. Mama filled the suet feeder with leftover suet from the plum pudding.

Merry Christmas, squirrels and birds! As Paul and I were sitting here in the living room, there was quite a ruckus outside as the squirrels hung upside down to get to the pinecones and fought over the nuts.