Today it is Pauline’s birthday so we made a trip across to visit her and take a birthday card, birthday present and of course a nice big chocolate birthday cake!
When we arrived at Grandad and Pauline’s we found Auntie Alison in the lounge feeding Joseph, so that was a bit of a surprise. Uncle Michael was no where to be seen apparently he had just nipped out to the shop. He arrived back 10 minutes later and we mobbed him at the garden gate!
Soon we were joined in the house by Uncle Simon, Auntie Melissa and Hughie and then Auntie Sarah arrived so before we knew it there was a birthday party happening! Pauline, the birthday girl, drew the short straw at the party though as she had to make us all lunch – we had some lovely sandwiches and brioche and stollen and crisps and then followed this with nice big slices of chocolate birthday cake (we took a slice of cake home for Daddy (Tim) as he was busy working today)!
Obvioulsy the chocolate birthday cake was not cut until a candle had been placed on the top of it and we had all sung Happy Birthday to Pauline!
The impromptu birthday lunch was lovely, so Thank You Pauline, and we hope you enjoy the rest of your Birthday – we think you should make Grandad take you out for dinner as there is no chance he would ever cook dinner (we don’t think he knows how to turn the oven on!!)
As you will all know by now we never have a “normal” Christmas Day and we think if we did we wouldn’t enjoy it half as much as we enjoy our Special Christmas Days.
Daddy had been to pick up Josh on Christmas Day and then they had gone back to Auntie Jennifer’s where Mummy (Alli) and Daddy (Tim) had spent their Christmas Day. Before going to bed Josh left out a mince pie, glass of baileys, carrot and bowl of milk for Father Christmas and Rudolph and wrote a little note saying “For you Father Christmas from Josh, Dan & Em.” Daddy and Alli then tucked Josh into bed and said if when you wake up in the morning and Father Christmas has left some presents on the end of your bed then come and tell us.
So this morning at 6.30am Josh got up and Daddy and Alli were expecting him to come rushing into the bedroom with some presents but instead he went to the toilet and then went back to his bedroom, Daddy thought this was a little bit strange so he got up to go and see what Josh was doing and found him standing in his bedroom staring in awe at the presents that Father Christmas had left in his stocking and on the end of the bed! Daddy helped Josh to carry his presents through and then Josh set about opening his bed presents – by 7am the presents were open and by 7:05am Josh was trying to do a Ben10 jigsaw that Father Christmas had bought him. It was quite a hard jigsaw so Daddy got out of bed to help Josh and Alli lay on the edge of the bed, under the duvet, and helped as well.
By 7:30am the jigsaw was complete and we now had to pass an hour and a half until Daniel & Emilie arrived at 9am – so we decided that the best thing to do would be to go back to sleep for a bit, so we did, all cuddled up in the one bed!
At 9am the doorbell rang and then chaos ensued, Josh came flying down the stairs, Daniel and Emilie removed their coats and shoes in record time and then the three of them went into the kitchen to see if Father Christmas had eaten his mince pie – HE HAD!!!! We then had to wait a few minutes for Daddy (Tim) to come down stairs before Mummy (Alli) opened the lounge door and checked to see if the Christmas Tree lights were on (Father Christmas always turns on the tree lights if he has been) and sure enough they were on and underneath the Christmas Tree and all across the lounge floor was a huge pile of presents, the biggest pile yet!!!
We spent the next hour and a half opening all our presents – we got loads and loads of presents from lots and lots of people, our big presents this year from Father Christmas were:
Daniel – Flat screen tv (for his bedroom) and an X-box
Emilie – Dolls house and a turquoise Nintendo DS
Joshua – Coastguard lego and a red Nintendo DS (he had been wanting a red DS all year, so was very pleased!)
Mummy (Alli) – Ipod touch
Daddy (Tim) – Lego walking AT-AT
Once the unwrapping was done we spent the rest of the day playing with all our presents, only stopping to eat our Christmas Turkey at lunchtime and some nibbles in the evening.
We had a brilliant and exhausting day and we all fell into bed and fell fast asleep at 10pm.
Thank you to everyone that sent us presents – you helped make our Christmas Day on Boxing Day another perfect family day to remember!
…. to all our readers.
We hope you all have a lovely Christmas Day and that Father Christmas brings you lots and lots of presents.
On our return journey from Uncle Michael’s we decided that we would call in to see Auntie Nicola, Uncle Steve, Laurie and Julien (Laurie’s, little brother) who is just 2 weeks old.
When we arrived our friend Laurie was having an afternoon nap so to pass the time until he woke up we all played with his toys and took it in turns to have cuddles with Julien. Of course Mummy (Alli) was the first to have a cuddle, sometimes Daddy (Tim) gets a look in and gets the first cuddle but he has to be quick!!
Julien is a lovely little baby and he slept all the time that we were there even though we were making lots and lots of noise, which got a little bit louder when Laurie woke up!
After leaving Cheddleton we set of in the car for Uncle Michael’s and Auntie Alison’s as we were finally going to meet our new cousin Joseph, who was born 3 weeks ago. Mummy (Alli) is the only one from our family that has met Joseph and we were very jealous. Mummy (Alli) had shown us some photos of Joseph that she took when she visited him on the day that he was born and we knew he looked cute on them but we really really really wanted to meet him in person and give him lots of huggles.
We arrived at our destination at 5:30pm and couldn’t wait to get out of the car and into the house, Uncle Michael greeted us at the door and we rushed to take our shoes off and run up the stairs to see Joseph, who was apaprently sleeping in his moses basket in the lounge. Unsurprisingly Daddy (Tim) was straight in there for a cuddle of his new nephew, little Joseph looked so small when he was having his first cuddle with Uncle Tim.
Shortly after arriving at Uncle Michael’s and Auntie Alison’s we had to get ready to go out for dinner, but not before we had all had a cuddle with Joseph. We had to sit down on the sofa and Mummy (Alli) and Daddy (Tim) helped us hold Joseph properly and then we each had a photo taken of our first cuddle with Joseph. When the cuddles were over Mummy put Joseph into his very snuggly blue outdoor suit which had little ears on it that made him look like Daniel’s blue bear and then he was put into his pram, which Daniel insisted on pushing all the way to the pub and back. Daniel was surprisingly very good at pram pushing and didn’t bounce Joseph up and down too many kerbs, apparently he has been practicing recently helping Linda push the pram to school.
We were all very well behaved in the pub even Joseph who slept whilst we all ate our dinners. Emilie had a little incident before we started eating when she managed to knock a whole glass of coke over which spilt all over poor Auntie Alison. We had to do lots of mopping up with napkins and the floor had to be mopped as well, the only good thing was that Emilie hadn’t knocked it over Joseph who she was also sat next too! The food was delicious and anything we couldn’t finish Uncle Michael was only to happy to help us with including Emilie and Josh’s homemade chicken nuggets and Emilie’s chocolate brownie, but there was no way he was getting any of Josh’s valinna (this is how JOsh says vanilla) ice cream, which he ate so quickly he gave himself brain freeze on more than one occassion.
Just as we were eating our desserts Joseph woke up for his milk so we helped Auntie Alison give Joseph his bottle and then when he had finished we all walked home with Daniel pushing the pram again.
When we got back to the house we had to get changed into our pyjamas which proved to be quite entertaining as Charlie the cat insisted on chasing both Josh and Emilie around as they were trying to take their clothes off, it was a sight to behold watching Charlie jumping and chasing after a naked Josh and Emilie. Eventually we managed to get Charlie out of the room and pyjamas were put on and then after our cups of milk we went to be in our new ready beds – Star Wars Clone Wars for Daniel, High School Musical for Emilie and Spiderman for Joshua. Daniel volunteered to sleep in with Joseph and keep him company during the night – he really is the doting older cousin!
When Emilie & Josh woke up in the morning they discovered that Daniel hadn’t had much sleep, just like Uncle Michael and Mummy, Joseph had woke up once to be fed (by Uncle Michael) and once to have his nappy changed (By Mummy). Daniel didn’t mind at all though and even volunteered that when Joseph comes to stay at our house next week he can share his bedroom. When everyone was out of bed Uncle MIchael set about making the traditional Sunday morning sausage sandwiches, which we all demolished and then it was time for Uncle Michael & Auntie Alison to open the presents that we had chosen for Joseph.
The presents we had chosen were:
Daniel – Soft leather shoes with rockets on that Uncle Michael thought were individual finger gloves
Emilie – A cuddly bunny rabbit with a blue crocheted cardigan, which went straight into Joseph’s moses basket
Joshua – A bib with teddy bears on
Mummy (Allison) & Daddy (Tim) – A suit saying “My Daddy Rocks”, matching bibs and a blanket with different labels all around the edge, that they have said Auntie Alison and Uncle Michael are NOT to pinch from Joseph. Mummy (Alli) and Daddy (Tim) had already sent some other presents down in the post for Joseph.
When the present unwrapping was finished it was time for us to pack up or belongings to come home, before we left we all had one more huggle with Joseph and then it was time for us to leave and make our way back up north.
The 3pks verdict on Joseph their new cousin is that he is very cute and they love him very much and can’t wait for him to come and stay at our house, and neither can Mummy – she is counting the days until the 30th December when Joseph is coming to stay!
