Christmas Day and Boxing Day
Christmas this year felt really magical as Harry now properly understands the idea of Santa and so was really excited. We started Christmas off on Christmas Eve with our family tradition of reading The night before Christmas and then putting out a mince pie and a carrot for Santa and Rudolph. Harry asked us how Santa would get in to deliver his presents as we don’t have a chimney. We assured him that Santa would be able to come to us as he could come in the back door. Strangely Harry was not keen on the idea when it came to bedtime so we said that Daddy would wait up and let Santa in, which seemed to be ok.
In the morning both boys were really happy to see their stocking were full of presents and we opened them together in our bed. Harry was especially pleased he had got the things off his list, a blue cat, a magnifying glass, an umbrella... Then downstairs under the tree where the presents from us and family and friends we were not able to see over the holidays. We got Harry a childrens camera and a tool kit, which was a massive success and he spent most of the day ‘fixing’ things. Ollie got a peppa pig laptop but I think his favourite toy was Harry’s Woody figure.
After breakfast we packed up the car and headed over to my parents for the day, where all my family were eagerly waiting for the boys to arrive so they could start the next lot of present giving. The boys were quite spoilt but in a good way. Mum cooked us the most amazing roast turkey dinner with all the trimmings, it was delicious, and we spent the rest of the afternoon relaxing and playing with all the boys new things.
When the boys were tucked up in bed we had a quiz evening. One of my brothers, Andy and his girlfriend Rachael hosted a great quiz which Luke and I won!
Boxing Day saw more of the same fun but for those of us who where up to it there was a walk along the river.
It was a beautiful, cold, crisp morning and although it didn’t snow on the 25th or 26th there was so much snow still on the ground in my mind it was a white Christmas.
Tool kits and cameras seem to be the ideal gift for three-year-olds. ;) It looks like you had a very magical Christmas! (I agree- it's so much more fun now that Garrett gets the whole Santa thing.)
ReplyDelete(PS: I got your FB email and am working on a response...I'll send it along soon, once I've had a decent minute to sit at the computer to type it out.)