The kids came running in at 7:30am, saying "he's been". Smallest got in bed with us and had a cuddle and a warm and Small lay on top of the bed and snuggled. They went up to wake Moo up and we all went downstairs where they handed us our stockings and one by one, starting with Small, we proceeded to open them.
Plenty of chocolate, some interesting Santa presents and then we made a start on breakfast. Croissants, and freshly made coffee and orange juice with a present to open at the table.
The boys then divided all the presents into piles for each person. We moved the sofas so it opened up the room a lot so we could see all presents being opened. Yesterday the boys asked for the majority of their presents to be hidden and so they ran around today looking for them all, though we had to help them find them too! Both of them, this year, opened their presents as quickly as they could. You just never know, from one year to the next, how they will be. Last year Smallest opened each present and played with it before moving on to the next, today they both just opened everything and then sat and looked at what they had.
Their main presents this year, for doing so well at school, was an X-Box for Small and Huffle to share and a Tablet for Smallest. They were both extremely surprised with these presents. There was no way either of them expected them. Small and Huffle disappeared downstairs to set up the X-box and play and Smallest sat and played on his new tablet (much faster and bigger than his old one).
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| Some of our presents and piles |
I checked with Huffle how long his turkey took and we realised it was four hours. We weren't too worried and put it in the oven. Moo and I sorted out the rest of the dinner, slowly, as we did have four hours. Two hours in and we were hungry. Three hours in and we were starving so we upped the oven temperature, stuck foil over the turkey and managed to shave off half an hour. Dinner was lovely. Smallest and Huffle had their turkey. Small had a cheese and onion tart and Moo and I had a roasted veg tart. Lovely.
Our Christmas crackers this year, had musical whistles in and music sheets to make lovely sounds. However, we haven't pulled all the crackers yet so we haven't been able to make the music. Maybe tomorrow.
After dinner, after clearing up was done, Huffle called Grandma and Grandad.
Later there was table tennis, Top Trumps, table top games of baseball, basketball, solitaire and cricket. Juggling, rubicks cubing, colouring, dot to dotting, domino building, reading and checking of presents.
We have had a lovely day. Tiring but lovely and we finished it off with a Festive Great British Bake Off.
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