Joshua arrived at 4.30pm and excitement ensued. Joshua discovered that Father Christmas had left him a pile of presents underneath the Christmas tree and so he started to unwrap them. Daniel and Emilie sat and watched very patiently, not that it took Josh long to tear the wrapping paper off his mountain of gifts.
By 5pm Daniel, Emilie and Joshua were running around like lunatics playing Power Rangers and The Fairy – Joshua had got a red power ranger suit and a power ranger game, Emilie didn’t want to be left out so she dressed up as a fairy and used a sword to defend herself against the power rangers.
This game soon came to an end when Joshua decided that he now wanted to do some of the jigsaws that Father Christmas had bought him. The evening was spent flitting from present to present with a few interruptions consisting of dinner and another present for all of us from Mummy (Alli).
Mummy (Alli) made us all sit down in the lounge as she had found a present that hadn’t been unwrapped and it was addressed to Tim, Daniel, Emilie and Joshua, when we opened it we found that Mummy (Alli) had treated us all to a wii and even Daddy (Tim) knew nothing about it.
Once the excitement of the wii had curtailed we carried on flitting from present to present and we spoke to both our Grandad’s and told them all about our Christmas Day.
At 10pm we were told it was time for bed and we didn’t argue as we were very tired by then!!
We had lovely Christmas Day made even better by the fact that we actually all got to see Joshua on Christmas Day – the first time this has ever happened!
Surprisingly we woke up early this morning but, to the relief of Mummy and Tim, not too early. Just as we woke up we heard Mummy saying “Tim I don’t think Father Christmas has been as there are no presents on the end of my bed.” We quickly checked the end of our beds and we were relieved to see that there was a pile of presents at the end of our beds. We got all the presents into Mummy and Tim’s bedroom and sat on the end of the bed and opened them.
Emilie then suggested to Mummy that her presents might have been too big for Father Christmas to leave on the end of her bed and that she should go downstairs and check to see if he had left them downstairs. Mummy thought this was a good idea so we all made our way downstairs and as soon as we got downstairs we noticed that the mince pie and carrot had been eaten and the beer and milk drunk – which could only mean one thing – Father Christmas had definitely been!!
We opened the lounge door and we were greeted with a sea of presents – it was brilliant! We spent over and an hour opening them all and we got lots of fantastic presents.
When we were finished Mummy asked Emilie to start taking some of her present up to her room so that we had space in the lounge to play with some of the other presents we had received, when Emilie got to her room she was surprised to find that an art desk had appeared in her room whilst we had been downstairs opening our presents – we hadn’t heard Father Christmas come back, he must have been very quiet.
Emilie was soon sat at her desk drawing, Daniel was learning how to become a rock star by playing on his new guitar which works on the x-box and Tim sat transforming his Optimus Prime Transformer whilst Mummy started cooking our Christmas Lunch.
Soon Mummy was calling us all to sit at the table so that we could eat our Christmas Lunch, we had a traditional lunch, which we had decided upon and asked Mummy to cook for us. Mummy had even got us some crackers and special champagne.
After lunch the playing and drawing resumed.
Tim has just gone to collect Joshua so that the present unwrapping fun can start again!!
We had some visiting to do this morning as we needed to go and see Josie and Grandad & Pauline. We went to see Josie first and as usual we were no sooner in the door than the demands for lemonade and sweets were being made!
Whilst consuming lemonade and starbursts we told Josie what we hoped Father Christmas would be bringing us. Daniel wanted Lego, Emilie wanted dollies and Josh got the argos catalogue out and started pointing to all the toys he could find!
Next it was off to Grandad & Pauline’s here we were able to consume fruit shoots and lovely Belgian biscuits – perhaps this Christmas visiting isn’t too bad after all! We also managed to acquire Grandad’s latest railway magazine so that Josh could have some new pictures of trains on his bedroom wall.
Our excitement with regards to the imminent arrival of a certain man in a red suit increased steadily during the day and before long we were being told that it was time to have a bath and get ready for bed.
Once we were bathed we went downstairs and got the necessary drinks and snacks out for our night time visitors – Father Christmas was left a bottle of Stella and a mince pie and Rudolph was left carrot and a bowl of milk. We also remembered to put our special key out for Father Christmas, the key doesn’t work in the door unless you are Father Christmas, as we don’t have a chimney we have to let him get into the house some how.
Joshua phoned us and told us that he had left out a snack and drink for Father Christmas as well, as he wasn’t staying with us tonight.
Then it was time for bed – Mummy and Tim warned us that if we didn’t go to sleep quickly we might not get any presents as if we are awake when Father Christmas arrives he doesn’t leave anything!
Our fingers are crossed that Father Christmas comes and leaves us lots of presents!!!
Yesterday afternoon, just before 2.30pm, Uncle Michael and Auntie Alison arrived – the time was important as at 2.30pm the Sale Sharks v Leicester Tigers rugby match was being shown on sky!
Uncle Michael installed himself on the sofa with the boxes of chocolates and he was soon joined by Daniel. We were all told by Uncle Michael that if we had any questions concerning the match we were to wait until half time to ask him and not disturb his viewing.
When the second half began Mummy (Alli) and Daddy (Tim) decided to take Emilie and Joshua to the park so that they could get some fresh air and a little bit of exercise. The park was great fun as the safe play surface had frozen and it was like being at the ice rink, it was even better because in the park there are hillocks to run up and down which we were soon all ski-ing down!
After a walk over to the duck pond, which was frozen as well, we went back home to see if Sale Sharks had won and therefore if Uncle Michael was in a good mood – they had won and he was!
Uncle Michael, Auntie Alison and Daniel then went out to the pub for a few quick drinks – Uncle Michael said that Daniel had had 5 pints whilst he was out but we think he was just trying to wind Daniel up.
We kept Uncle Michael and Auntie Alison entertained then with our predictions as to what Father Christmas would be bringing us and then it was time for bed.
On Christmas Eve morning we didn’t get chance to jump on Uncle Michael to wake him up as he woke up before us.
It was nice to see Uncle Michael and Auntie Alison again.
This afternoon Emilie was a star in her first school nativity. Mummy went to watch her and said that she did very well.
She has been singing snippets of songs around the house for weeks, but as soon as she realised that someone was listening she would stop, finally this afternoon Mummy got to her Emilie and the rest of the reception year sing the songs in full and she says that they sang them beautifully.
Emilie and the other 6 stars had a turn at being centre stage when they gave a rendition of twinkle twinkle little star complete with a little dance.
Emilie has also told us that she was very pleased that Mummy managed to get a seat on the front row as it meant that she could take lots of pictures of her – not that she is vain or anything.
Mummy says that it was lovely to watch Emilie in her first school nativity and that it even bought a little tear to her eye – she is a softy sometimes.
