Christmas Trees & Toddlers - the Dilema

The Mu is two-years old, and has gotten his first taste of Christmas Cheer.  Everywhere we go, he manages to point out every St. Nick and Snowman he sees.  So it is with great excitement and anticipation for him and me that we will be getting a Christmas tree soon.

This excitement is, understandably, not shared equally with Lady Rad whose current challenges involve making sure that the Mu doesn't cause too much toddler-destruction while she is needing to attend to Q's nap-training routine.  Normally, this challenge has been met by a diligent child-proofing routine every morning where Lady Rad can be reasonably confident that she can go into another room for 20 minutes while Mu is quietly playing with toys.  Brining a Noble Fir into the front room kind of screws up the entire flow that's been achieved thus far.



Our house is such that gating off the front-room is impossible, and no other room in the house could contain a full-sized tree.  Perhaps we will utilize a small tree to place on the dining table where curious hands can't reach, but even then the Mu is like a billy goat and can climb up on anything given the will power - I'm curious to see how long the tree can be protected, even placed on-high somewhere.

The concern, of course, isn't the preservation of the tree, though that would be nice; we are more interested in keeping our little guy from acting out his lumberjack fantasies and knocking it over onto himself... or through the front window.

A quick search through the internet yields some good ideas: anchoring the top of the tree to the ceiling so that it won't topple over (but will the Mu then scale it?); placing the tree in an old Pack-n-Play (ours is currently in use by Q; tieing upside down from the ceiling (apparently this is done in Germany?); or using the old table-tree.

Not sure any of these will work, but then there might not be the perfect solution... Comments/Suggestions are welcome, I'll post the solution when I think of it.