Given this was our first year without Grandad we decided to do something a bit different and we headed out for lunch on the 27th with Nana, Auntie Cath and Mr Darren.
It made a nice change m, and who knows it maybe something we decided to do more regularly. Your pudding was certainly impressive!
You’ve both been looking forward to trying out ice skating again this year so today Mummy took you back to the Garden Centre at East Bridgeford.
Isabelle got the hang of it and was confident skating on her own.
You sat on a dolphin but right at the end of the session when the rink was clear had a go at skating on the ice just holding on to the dolphin!
It was a lot of fun! Afterwards we went for hot chocolates with Grandma and Grandad to warm up again!
We went back to the Grange Farm Christmas Barn today – it was amazing and full of beautiful decorations!
We chose some to go on a stand Mummy had bought last year and it looks lovely!
Today you came with me to go to the sales and do some Christmas shopping.
We found lots of lovely things and treated ourselves to hit chocolate and cake!
So today was Christmas Day – Isabelle came through first, and half an hour late you had woken up and brought her stocking through too.
Santa had put an orange, chocolate coins, a tamagotchi toy, a soft toy elf, a mermaid pen and a chocolate orange in your stockings!
We went downstairs and discovered Santa had eaten the mince pie and drank his sherry! The carrot had also been eaten and some of Rudolph’s water had been drunk too!
You both opened lots of gifts – you had a Thomas The Tank Engine Hornby train, set Isabelle has had a keyboard, you’ve both had a Waitrose play shop and an Amazon Alexa as well as lots of other lovely toys too!
We went round to see everyone at Nana’s house before going for lunch at Grandma and Grandad’s house!
Tonight you went to a carol concert with Nana, Nana Brown and Aunty Cath.
When you got back you chose your carrot for Rudolph and put a mince pie and sherry out for Santa.
Just before Daddy and Mummy went to bed we caught a glimpse of someone delivering your presents…!
Today Grandma, Grandad, you and Mummy all went for a festive trip to Chatsworth house. This year they had lots of rooms dressed in Christmas themes based on story books. When we got to the Sleeping Beauty room you were mesmerised and spent ages watching the video that was playing over and over again!
Tonight we went to Messy Church and heard the story of Christmas.
You wanted to dress up and play but Isabelle got to decorate a gingerbread man, make a wise man out of a wooden spoon and nativity scene out of a paper envelope!
we also put the Christmas tree up this afternoon – you’re both very impressed with it!
Today it was the Christmas market at Stonehurst farm so we got to look around at the craft stalls as well as the animals!
