Small woke us up at just after 7am, bounding into our room, declaring that Christmas was here. Huffle and I turned over and tried to ignore him, it was too early for us. We heard Smallest get up, shortly followed by Moo and eventually we got up too. It hadn't snowed and was a very mild, sunny day.
We started with our Santa Stockings. We all got a Christmas Plate, a satsuma and chocolate coins. The boys got Pokemon cards, car stickers and a minion (the boys give me the minions to hide over the house and when they find them, I have to hide them somewhere else - I don't know why but they love it). Moo got some fake snow (well she did ask for snow!).
Once the stockings were emptied, we made a start on breakfast. We had pancakes from yesterday, waffles and pain au chocolat with fruit, chocolate spread and maple syrup (we didn't have all of this, just a selection to choose from).
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| My breakfast waffle only new plate |
The kids got under and behind the tree and started to sort all the presents out into piles for each person. We slowly took it in turns to open our presents. We were very lucky and all got plenty of treats. One of our presents to Moo was a necklace which she actually chose. I decided to do a 'Love Actually' moment on her and wrap something else up in the box her necklace came in. She knew the shape and when she opened it and found a stone (a lovely hand zentangled stone I will say) instead, she dutifully played the part and had a small tear and walked out of the room to compose herself (just like in the film). It was very funny and we then let her have her real present.
Small, this year, slowly unwrapped his presents, then the unwrapping got quicker and quicker, and then he ran around the house looking for the presents we hid until it dawned on him there was one present he was expecting but hadn't had yet. This is when we had to help him find the ones we had hidden and when he found it, we could see he was happy and he then wanted to play on the Wii (it was a new game and a few Disney infinity characters).
Smallest took his time and enjoyed handing presents to everyone else. He too suddenly got the frenzy of unwrapping stage and then happily joined Small on the Wii leaving a few presents for later. I skyped Aunty A for a Christmas chat and she reminded Huffle to put the turkey in the oven (it took four hours and it was about 1pm - whoops). We decided to have a spot of lunch to keep us going and pulled our Christmas Crackers then instead of later. We opened a few more presents and then all went into the garden for a game of football. Smallest got a football trainer that attached to his waist and the football and it was fun to watch him kick the ball so hard and it rebound back to him. Moo was our Coventry Ball Girl who fetched it when we kicked it over the net, and the rest of us took it in turns to be in goal.
More Wii for the boys while we concentrated on dinner and opening the rest of our presents. Basically our presents took all day to open completely especially because Moo kept finding ones from upstairs. We ended the day with tubs of Quality Street and Celebrations, a box of After Eights, shortbread and a Terry's Choclate Orange. Yum yum. We did very well.
Huffle FaceTimed Grandma, Grandad, Aunt Pear and HB and we had a good long chat.
We attempted to tidy up the living room by organising presents and opening boxes before sitting down and watching a bit of TV. Smallest went to bed with Bob (huge elephant) and Moo read to him. There wasn't a lot of room in the bed. Grandma bought the kids a huge soft toy each and although Small is way past soft toys these days, he loved his 'charlie' and cuddled him on the sofa, used him as a book holder and knee warmer and took him to bed. Smallest said that 'Bob' was his new favourite. I don't know what Smelly or Pluto will say about that.
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| The old and the new. He says Bob is Smelly's long lost Dad |
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