Mum was off with us in the morning last wednesday, she dragged us to the shop on the sledge through the snow.....how christmassy!
It was, even though I didn't fancy it and decided to walk instead. Although I did let Ned pull both me and Mum.....yes, i'm very strong don't you know!
We had to take Mum to work in the afternoon, which was a shame.
Especially as Dad insisted on driving really slowly in the snow....the boring old git!
We had a visit from Sue in the afternoon, Ned missed it all though as he was fast asleep, I had her to myself! Good job he didn't see the huuuge bag of presents she'd bought in, he'd never have kept it secret like I did!
Thursday then was Christmas eve, the excitment of the last fairy drawer and the last window of the advent calendar...
....unless, like me, you'd opened 24 several weeks ago, oops!
We had a visit from Rach, kimi and Marney, always great fun, especially when there's presents involved of course!
Then Dad came home from work, finished for christmas!
We had a visit from Slim and Trace in the afternoon as well, we love Christmas, we get to see so many people!
Andy also put in a brief appearance before he cleared off to Cornwall for his winter surf!
It was a McDonalds for tea, dad reckons it's good to get a proper meal in before christmas as it's a difficult time to get a decent feed.
And after thet we dropped in on Abi and Faye to exchange gifts and for Mum and I to make a fuss over little Faye.
And a great oppurtunity for me to ransack Abi's toys!
Sounds like a pretty packed day doesn't it? Not for us, we carried on and went to the pub as well! How about that?
We had a quick drink with a few of the gang that were out and snowball fight before being dragged off home before the disco started...boooooo!
We had urgent business to attend to at home though:
The santa sign of course!
And the sprinkling of the reindeer food on the drive:
And then in side to leave a carrot for Rudolph and a mince pie and glas of Ribena for Santa:
With all that taken care of it was time for bed, after quickly checking Santa's progress on the NORAD website.
And then up again at 3am!!!! I was informed this was far too early and was sent back to bed. Spoilsports. I managed to nod off again and tried again at a far more reasonable 7am which was met with approval. I fetched my stocking and got busy with the little things first of all. Santa had done very well with the stocking stuff and we had a nice game of happy families in bed while we were waiting for that lazy slug Ellis to surface.
I had to give in and get up in the end, so I dragged my stocking in and was as pleased with Santa's gifts as Ned was, if a little more bemused about what on earth was actually going on.
Once that was done, it was time to get downstairs for the main event:
Big presents:
More big presents:
Presents you could wear:
And then lots of smaller presents wedged right at the back of the tree:
What lovely stuff we had!
Auntie Trish came over, result. We only normally get to see her when mum and Dad are going out or something. She had a lovley Santa hat that she had worn all the way from Amazingstoke too, a great effort that didn't go unnoticed.
Uncle Den made a very brief appearance, but it was obvious he wasn't staying at our house for long as he was far too smartly dressed!
Then Alan and Hayley arrived with Grandma and it was lunchtime, here's proof I did eat a carrott:
And here's proof that Mum undermined Dad and put a sprout on my plate, I ate half of it to keep them both happy:
I think Alan ate almost every single pig in blanket that I lovingly hand rolled!
So once lunch was done and dusted it was present time again:
Hooray!
Ned makes sure i'm looking my best:
He's done a good job i think?
We stayed up pretty late but eventually it was time for bed. We'd both been really good all day though and didn't mind too much.
I let Trish sleep in my lovely bouncy bed, I hope she liked it. I got to sleep in Mum and Dads room on the ready bed which was most exciting!
Here we are in some of our new snuggly pyjamas before we turned in:
Boxing day then, supposed to be all round to Auntie Christine's for the day but her and Uncle Ian were so poorly it was all called off. What a shame! Fancy being poorly for christmas?
I'm sure we'll catch up with them soon enough.
So what did we do? Sit about, eating:
And playing with our toys. Dad and I had a mountain of Lego that wasn't going to build itself!
And playing with our toys. Dad and I had a mountain of Lego that wasn't going to build itself!
And a baby with a tricky to fit nappy:
Mum was still off work on the Sunday and she was itching to get out and about. We decided on swimming and headed off to the Coral Reef.
Mum was still off work on the Sunday and she was itching to get out and about. We decided on swimming and headed off to the Coral Reef.
I was pretty worried it would stil be closed but was assured everything would be okay this time, it was!
We had a lovely swim, loads of jumping in and splashing and retrieving our little seal thingy's from the bottom of the pool, which I was particulalry good at, even if it did make my eyes go bright red in the end.
I also had two goes down the flume with Dad and loved it to bits, squealing for speed all the way down!
Mum was back to work on Monday, booo! We had a quick trip out on the bikes so i could try my new helmet:
We went to see Mum for lunch and took her to the pasty shop in the pouring rain!
Yesterday we had a proper visit from Uncle Den and Auntie Gail. We got to show them all our presents and what have you properly.
Today we had all the excitmement of a Tesco shopping trip, yay!
And the completion of my last Lego set....boo, back down to earth with a bang!
Of course we need to thank everyone for our lovley gifts and their splendid company over the last week or so, we've had a really lovely time and consider ourselves very lucky indeed!
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