We had a nice mellow Christmas this year at home.

My Mom arrived a few days before the big day which was so nice. She stayed for 13 days combining time with us and other family. We ate, drank wine, visited parks, shopped… The kids really enjoyed having Nana visiting and loved to sit down and read a book with their Nana. We enjoyed having her here too 🙂

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Claire & Rhys were so excited for Christmas morning. We had them all charged up for it as we talked about it lots the week before. Also, they just came off having their birthday party where they had a lot of gifts to open. Rhys woke up first and was so excited seeing the little Christmas tree all lit up with a bunch of presents lying about. There were two winnie the pooh characters up-wrapped that he saw first and he shouted with excitement! Claire was still sleeping so we asked him to wait until she woke up. Although he was very good about waiting, it  sure didn’t take too long for him to sneak into their room and wake her up.

I have never seen Claire wake up so fast before…..we said ‘Merry Christmas’ and she was up and ready to get out of her crib. The kids really enjoyed all their new toys and we had as much fun as they did. Christmas really is something else once you have kids. It was great.

 

Tigger & Winnie-the-pooh

Loving their new doll carriers – thanks Mom!

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