Christmas

Christmas was wonderful this year. The run up seemed so much shorter than usual, with Amelia being at school. The run up felt like one week only. Before Christmas we had a few parties with the girls friends, which was lovely as Amelia does not get to see her chums much out of school anymore. The day before Christmas Eve mum and dad took the girls to the panto to see Aladdin. Amelia LOVED it ... but Lucy. .... apparantly the first thing on stage was the scary baddy and Lucy immeadiately didnt like it and dad had to take her out of the theatre .. he pretty much spent the rest of the 2.5 hour show playing outside with her!!! What a terror - she says she had fun though!!

On Christmas eve Liz & Geoff took them to buy their Christmas presents, two guinea pigs - they ahd already bought the hutch and accessories which is in the back of the garage - so they came over and completely surprised the girls asking if they want to go pick a guinea pig each! They were over the moon, especially Amelia and went to the pet shop and came home with two girl piggies, both with mad curly hair! Lucy named hers Strawberry and Amelia named hers Fluffy - we cannot believe one is not named Rosie as they seem to have an obsession woth that name! THey are very cute, but very shy and need to be handled often to get used to us - which is not a problem .. especially for Amelia who would cuddle them all day!

After that we went to the cinema and saw Chipmunks; Chipwrecked! Both girls LOVED the film, which wasnt too loud and we had a great time. Then it was home for dinner and to put out Father Christmas mince pie, whisky and carrots for the reindeer and watching their video messages from the north pole itself! They watched them open mouthed and Lucy freely admitted she had not been the goodest girl - but they seemed pretty confident they were getting presents anyway!!

Christmas day was lovely, the girls opened their stockings and then their presents from Father Christmas. There wasnt actually time to give them all the gifts from us .. they finished their presents from us on Boxing Day! Both sets of Nannys and Grandads popped over with gifts and the girls were spoilt rotten! Christmas dinner was lovely and we had an all around great time!