Our son was the first of our family to actually be born in Texas(though I moved to Texas at the young age of 3 months from Louisiana and my husband was born in Hong Kong). We came up with this ornament idea - painted part of the Texas flag onto a star ornament, surrounded it with familiar cowboy para-phanalia, and imprinted our tiny baby’s footprint on the front of the star. He’s four years old now, and his foot would completely engulf the entire ornament. I’m so glad we have this fun ornament to always remember how tiny he once was.
On the back, I wrote
The Wong’s - A great place to hang my hat!
Xmas 04
One and a half year after the first Texas star ornament was on the tree, we added another Texan. We picked out the cowboy hat for the ornament before he was born. In turns out this little guy’s temperament is opposite to his big brother. He wiggled alot and arched his back when you hold him. He started to climb on things very early. He is 21 months and already walking up and down the stairs. One day I found him opened up all the changing table’s draws. He was standing on one the bottom draw trying to climb up to the table top! He is truly wild at heart - a cowboy. Just like the handmade ornament, cowboy hat comes with him when he was born.
