The meaning of christmas...shopping?

Hello my yuletide chums!
Thursday mum had a half day, so we went Christmas shopping in Reading. As mum is a squeaker we had to park about 17 miles away from town and walk, didn't bother me in the pushchair though. We trawled round the shops before going to Pizza Hut. They were a bit nervous after my last visit when I decided to re-decorate the high chair with the contents of my stomach but they needn't have worried. I scoffed a couple of pieces of garlic bread with cheese before seeing off the best part of my pizza, it was lovely. I made friends with a pair of teenage boys on the table behind and we had a smart game of peep-o and everything. Dad asked for the bill when we were finished and after a bit of a wait got a receipt to say it was all paid for! After a brief discussion with mum, we left without paying clutching our receipt! Merry Christmas Pizza Hut!
Friday was party time:

Mum and Dad took me back to nursery on friday afternoon for our Christmas party. We had sarnies, sausage rolls and cakes (Hugo ate loads, even more than dad!) and then we had a visitor:

Mums made sure i'm pretty clued up about this chap, so I was shouting 'Tanta' (it's near enough Santa) way before the others had even twigged as to what was going on. He had a present for everyone and I made sure I was first in the queue, even though I had to wait ages for mine to come out. It was a book with animals in it so I was well pleased. Santa seems to know what I like so far, fingers crossed. It was nice showing mum and dad my friends and giving them a taste of what I get up to at nursery. After we got home and I had another round of sarnies and a banana Aunty Chris and Nanny turned up, shortly followed by Laura and James! I knew that mum and dad would be going out so I started waving bye-bye to them in a bid to get them gone quicker. Turns out it was Dads work party and they both looked uncharacteristicly smart when they finally left.
Saturday morning Dad looked a little the worse for wear, so I made sure I splashed down on his belly a few times and kept him awake when he tried to snatch a crafty kip. He soon came round and they started mucking about with that tree from last week, I left them to it and played some golf in the garden. Eventually the tree found itself in the front room, things then got a lot more interesting:

All this sparkly stuff came out and we got to hang it on this tree, weird or what? Good fun though and it looked pretty nice when we finished.
On Sunday we didn't do a lot and I got a bit grumpy, so we went out delivering Christmas cards. I enjoyed playing with Andy's expensive new putter, cheers Andy.
Monday we went shopping again! This time it was just me and Dad to get stuff for mum. I'm sworn to secrecy of where we went or what we got her. I'll just add that if she doesn't like anything, it's dads fault.
In general news, even though it's been really cold in the mornings on the way to nursery I have been refusing to wear gloves. I just don't like them even though my hands have gone bright pink by the time we get there. I'm loving the advent calendar and am now relatively comfortable with the concept of only opening one door at a time, even if I have already opened door 22 which took my fancy. And finally I seem to have my appetite back after being a bit off my food for a bit, so that should please dad. I think i'll need to be pulling my weight with the amount of food that has suddenly appeared in the house anyway.

New world record lie in!

Sorry i'm a day late this week, i've had word with my editorial team/photographer and hopefully they won't be quite so slack again.
Going right back to last Wednesday, we went to Tesco's in the afternoon and took Nanny with us too. I like it when Nanny comes to Tescos with us, she alwayd has a bag of chocolate buttons in her bag. All dad ever has is a determined look on his face and gritted teeth! She came back home with us in the afternoon and even stayed for tea, so that was fun!
On Thursday we took mum out for lunch because she was working late that night. I stole some of her dinner and necked some of her drink!
Friday afternoon Dad took me over the field to see the horses. It took a while for me to feel at ease with the beasts, but they were okay...still prefer them on the telly though.
Saturday was busy busy busy! We had breakfast and then went out into the country and bought a spiky tree!

I was let out of the pushchair and made a right menace of myself running around the place while grim faced grown ups wrestled with huge lumps of foliage. All very weird if you ask me! Anyway, the tree got put in a giant sock and we put it in the car and took it home. Dad then stuck it in a bucket of water in the garage. It'll never grow shut up in there! They had a little dancing Santa there too:

I showed him some of my smooth moves, I think he learned something.....
After lunch we went to the fancy bike shop in Caversham, I think it's probably too late for dad to be dropping hints for Christmas the fool, he can make do with socks anyway!
In the evening we went to see Rach because it was her birthday! Ben had a Chinese takeaway and I kept trying to slide up to it un-noticed. I think my technique may need some work as I was foiled time and time again. Never mind, the jammie dodgers were nice! They even had a nice cat to chase. All the usual suspects turned up with takeaway curry just as they sent me off to bed the rotters! Anyway, I had a bit of a kip before they woke me up at midnight and we went home. I went straight back to sleep......
......and didn't get up until a quarter to twelve on Sunday morning! That must be a record for the under 2's category. It all worked out well though as I got to skip breakfast (i've gone off rice krispies and toast) and went straight on for lunch (Dairylea sarnie...much better!).
In the afternoon we went to Fantasy World. I haven't been for a while so I was keen to show Mum my new skills falling into the ball pool from the steps again, and again, and again, and again...you get the picture! Dad went down the biggest slide in the place and came out of the bottom at a truly terrifying speed, i'm glad no one was near the point of touchdown, things would have got ugly! I was also doing pretty well getting the the girl from behind admission till to chase me around the place until mum cramped my style, thanks mum! We then went to Waitrose for some posh shopping and I was allowed to wander around the shop rather than be strapped into a trolley. That was ace, I got to fondle all the fruit and scrunch up some crisps on the way round, so if anyone got a packet of tortilla chips like sawdust, i'm sorry! After all that exertion, I was tired again so it was back to bed for a bit before getting up for a roast dinner and then back to bed again for the night. After all that shut-eye i'm fully re-charged so watch out!
We've had an low-key start to the week:

Here I am chilling on the sofa. The highlight so far being Wednesday's christmas food shop! Now this was quite something. Dad was on a mission to buy a whole load of stuff i've never even seen before, and then some! It was great because the trolley was so full up, it was easy pickings to help myself to the wide variety of goods on offer, peruse them for a bit and then chuck them on the floor!
Dad loves having to pick it up again.

Christmas is coming!

As the title says, Christmas is coming apparently! There's all these pictures of a big fat bloke in a red outfit, he's called 'Santa' apparently, I have no idea what he does or indeed where he's been for the last year but he's everywhere now! We have a weird card thing with doors in it that they make me open every day. Thing is, there's got to be at least 20 odd doors on it and they only let me open one at a time? I dunno, next you'll be telling me we're going to have a tree in the lounge.......
And now for the out and about section. Thursday we went to Nanny's. As usual I managed to gorge on Marks and Spencer chocolate biscuits, lovely! I also got to have a cuddle with Nanny while watching 'Big cook, little cook' on C-Beebies, result!
Friday night aunty Chris turned up, closely followed by Laura.....something was going down! I was distracted by my tea and Mum and Dad slipped out, not that I could have cared less, I had a great night. I saved a special nappy full for Laura, I knew she'd love the sweet aroma! I hope Mum and Dad don't get to see the video footage of me belly laughing, emptying Lauras handbag and generally enjoying myself....
Saturday afternoon we went to see Kin, Melissa, Yanna and Fen. We hadn't seen them for ages so it was great fun. Dad and Kin sloped off out, they said they were going to the pub but the far more believable story was that they went off to the bike shop! While they were gone we ran riot around the house. Once they had returned and it had got a bit darker we went to see some christmas lights at a house even posher than the Law's:

It's been on the news and everything they have so many. I am reliably informed we had a look at them last year.....I am also reliably informed that last year they forgot to bring me a coat, as they did again this year! So I had to borrow one from Fen, thanks Fen!
The lights were quite a spectacle and there were even giant inflatable Tiggers. Fen also managed to pull a snowmans nose off.

Saturday night was poker night. Everyone and his dog was around this week so I got to see everyone for a while before I went to bed. I even got to chase Jase and his tube of pringles around the house!
Sunday they took me to the farmers market in town and then onto Southampton so mum could give us a few present ideas for this Christmas thing. I thought Dad was taking note of her whimsical fancies and he thought I was, oh dear.......
Monday afternoon Owen came round. We watched Teletubbies for a bit but I could see Owen was being a bit stretched by it intelluctually. Dad then appeared with a load of big boxes, they had cars and stuff in them. They connected a load of road type bits together and then drove the cars around it! It was incredible, i'd never seen anything like it and had a great time chasing these cars around the track. Dad seemed really pleased when the cars left the track and I carried them over to him....

...until I realised that they were only leaving the track because of poor driving! I soon knocked that one on the head and made them fetch their own wrecks!