We left CP mid afternoon Friday, having attempted to wait out the rain shower in Starbucks, but giving up and just getting soggy on the way to the car instead. Then we got lost trying to get out of the carpark and ended up driving round the whole site, which added a ludicrous amount of time to our journey. As did the rain – aquaplaning is not all that much fun really. The part where the road surface was covered with washed out of the ground leeks was at least interesting.
Lovely to arrive at mother’s and have a cuppa, and once grandad arrived home from work, a belated Christmas mark 2 got underway. Children got some really lovely stuff, including bits they’d asked for like the Transformers Revenge of the Fallen Bumblebee Voice Mixer Helmet
for Small and the vet kit for Big. All in all they were very happy with their haul, as were we 🙂
Late night with fractious baby meant late morning all round, then Auntie J appeared with Christmas mark 3. Some excellent presents including underwater digital cameras, which will get plenty of use on the beach this summer I suspect, as the housing should keep sand out as well. Not sure how Small will cope with his no fear flowboard – I never could balance on a skateboard, but we’ll give it a go. The hurricane kites with their own bumbags are likely to get lots of usage as well, and Big’s clothes went down a treat.
Think J enjoyed meeting up with soa who was in an adorable mood, cooing and gurgling and making smiling faces all over the place. I really must start uploading some pictures.
Afternoon vanished – at some point in the day I had a lovely bath in the whirlpool bath my parents have, and we processed the kids through after me. That might have been morning though, I really can’t remember. And J brought Princess down with her, so the children really enjoyed playing with their cousin, to the extent that they were practically fighting over her!
In the evening we went out for a meal to meet up with K and S and Bil and Scott. Chosen pub started out a bit noisy, but when the family behind us finally gave up and went it calmed down rather, and the food was good and plentiful. So were the presents 🙂 Small had his Ben 10 addiction well and truly fed, with three figures from the 10cm alien force alien collection
as well as a number of excellent Marvel Heroes clothes items. He particularly likes the hoody 🙂 Big got doll’s clothes, a secret diary and some lovely clothes as well.
Soa got a lovely piglet as well as clothes and a fleecy blanket. Oh, and a roundabout toy 🙂
All my children did really well this christmas from their relatives – our challenge was to fit everything in the car to bring it home. It took most of the day on Sunday to do it, but we did. Mainly very careful packing of all the clothing which took it down from four bags to two, leaving room for all the new stuff in the other two. I was still impressed when we managed to get it all in, and there wasn’t much room in the car either, with stuff packed into the passenger footwell and even under my feet.
Journey home was longer than it should have been due to a closure on the A14 which added about an hour to the journey. So we were late home with tired children. Pizza for tea and then to bed.
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