Christmas 2009

Christmas 2009 was a relatively quiet, but enjoyable, one in our household. As we’ve done for the past three years we had Christmas at home with just me, Vince and the boys. It’s so much less stressful that way and the boys were able to enjoy playing with their new toys.

For Christmas Aidan got his much asked for ‘bike with pedals’! We took him out on it and after about 15 minutes was a pro. I was so proud of him riding his bike without stabilisers. He’s had a likeabike since his second birthday so is quite used to balancing on a bike and I think it’s this that allowed him to ride a real bike so early on. Sammy has now inherited the likeabike but is so far showing less interest in it, especially when we don’t push it along for him!

Sam’s favourite toy was his tea set and lego. He also really loves the arts and crafts presents my sister got Aidan for Christmas and will spend ages sitting at the table colouring. It’s an amazing attention span given that he’s not yet one. Although my mum did point out to me today that at some point he decided to use his artistic skills decorating the inside of our curtains with green pen!

For Christmas dinner Vince cooked a ham this year rather than the usual turkey. Mainly because the boys adore ham and so we thought they’d like that. It was really lovely, we got it from a local farm (Prior’s Hall Farm) and the quality was amazing. I would highly recommend it! Although there was a point I didn’t think we’d have a kitchen to cook it in. We got our new kitchen from Ikea delivered on the 10th December. We were building it ourselves and only got the worktop and cooker in on Christmas Eve along with the Christmas tree as we didn’t have the room beforehand to put one up! It’s all done now and looks amazing.

On Boxing Day we went round to Mum’s. Strangely it seems Father Christmas got confused and left some presents for Aidan and Sam round mum’s! Needless to say the boys were delighted, Aidan received a tool box (with tools that actually make drilling/sawing noises – those toys live at Nanny’s) and Sammy got a kitchen which he adores.

The final event on our calendar was a meal round my sister in laws. Actually, we didn’t realise that she was going to be serving food so we’d actually already eaten before arriving. Didn’t stop us tucking into the cheeses and breads and cakes mind you! Aidan and Sam loved playing with their cousins Louis and Daisy. Aidan and Louis enjoyed singing various songs from Boogie Beebies (in particular Dig It!) whilst Sammy and Daisy played with their tea sets!

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