Last night Santa managed to sneak past the eldest Elf in the house (Small not Moo) and put a few presents in his stocking hanging on his door. He also ate the mince pie and drank the orange juice (leaving us with minimal OJ for ourselves this morning). Small had trouble sleeping last night. First he was too excited, then too warm, then the rain was noisy, our film was too noisy, the wind was too windy. He was still awake at 12 midnight. Smallest slept well as usual. Huffle managed to set up the Wii U whilst watching Scrooged. He did a lovely job and then we put a piece of wrapping paper over the front of the cupboard to hide it a little bit.
This morning Small ran in to our room at 7:30am shouting "get up get up". HAS HE BEEN? They came in to bed briefly for a cuddle and then ran off to wake Moo. Apparently she was trying to get out of bed but Smallest wouldn't let her. Eventually when we could prise our eyes open, we crawled downstairs. It felt like it was the middle of the night (possibly because the wind was so wild last night that it kept us awake too).
Our stockings were investigated first. Santa had left us chocolates, toys and lovely things. Small was just too excited to wait for anything so while I had a shower, he put the presents into piles for each of us.
Small went through his presents at a fast pace. Smallest opened his quite quickly too (some years we have still been opening his days later) but he tried things on and opened them and played a bit, whereas Small just opened, put to one side and found the next one and when all of his were opened he went in search of the presents we had hidden. They found a few hidden in the kitchen and then went into the basement where they found another few.
Tennis Raquet, Smallest didn't get a box of Cornflakes but he thought he had (there was something hidden in there). Smallest got his big poster of Minions and a new dressing gown.
Then they noticed the paper over the cupboard and ripped it off. Their faces were of complete wonderment as they noticed the Wii U. Smallest came up and gave me the biggest hug and they were jumping up and down and dancing. Of course, they wanted to play and that's where they stayed for the most part of the day. In between they found more presents, came up for drinks and for dinner.
Huffle's new snow goggles and mask, Colour changing ball (both boys had these).
Lots of Wii games, England Tops and others, Santa Beards, Books, Baseball Bat and Ball and Basketball.
Today dinner was a very organised affair. We put the turkey on early (it needed four hours) and the grown ups carried on opening presents until we decided to stop to prepare the rest of dinner. It pretty much all came together around 2:30pm and we sat down with a glass of wine (and Apple and Blackberry Squash - a present from Santa) and a lovely dinner. No pudding till later as we were full.
Trifle, gingerbread, Christmas Table.
The boys returned to the Wii U after a brief chat (or maybe a wave) with Grandma and Grandad on Skype. Moo and I cleared away and then made a Treacle Sponge and warmed the Christmas Pudding while Huffle Skyped Aunt Pear and HB.
We finished off unwrapping our presents (we had some lovely presents) the boys carried on playing, and then early evening we all stopped for a small tea. Moo bought the boys Red Leicester Cheese (can't get that here unless it's import from the market) and they had that with crackers. Small decided he now likes Brie, Cheshire but is not so keen on Wensleydale with Cranberries - shame.
The gingerbread house was attacked and the trifle dug into. More clearing up and the boys watched TV before bed.
*when Small tried the trifle today he said "my favourite part of a trifle is the boudoir fingers". I found that a very funny statement for an eleven year old boy. He didn't know why.
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