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!
Today we went to the pantomime to watch Beauty and the Beast – you didn’t like the scary witch in the first half but really got in to once the scary bits were over in the second half!
Nana has made her special calendars again for you this year. This morning you opened he first one today and got Christmas gloves!
Today we went to a garden centre to try ice skating.
You loved being pushed around on a dolphin and Isabelle has a really good go at skating on her own.
There were some singing penguins which you found very funny!
It was a lovely start to Christmas!
So it’s the start of 2016…lots happened in 2015 and we have lots to look forward to this year-I’m excited already at the thought of all the fun we’re going to have! 
We have had a lovely Christmas again this year-when you woke up on Christmas morning Santa had put a pink table in your room with a table lamp, coaster and a box of tissues on it. He’d also moved your stocking on to your table:
When you got downstairs you could see that Santa had ticked torch and clock off your list and that he had eaten his mince pie and drank his drink. There was only the tip of the carrot left where hungry Rudolph had munched the carrot you had left!
Today we went to Woodlands Garden Centre to see Santa before Christmas. To start off with Jessicca didn’t want to wake up: 
When we got there we saw lots of big lights and Christmas decorations:
Then a naughty Elf found you!
you decorated a gingerbread biscuit while we waited for our breakfast:
After breakfast you had a dance with Daddy while Jessica had a nap:
THEN…you got to meet Santa and Jessica had her first cuddle with Santa!
Afterwards we went to see Nana Brown and put her Christmas tree up for her-you and your sister lounged around on the sofa quite a bit though!
You, Mummy, Grandma and Grandad all went to watch Isabelle in her nativity today. The nativity was great, although not all of Isabelle’s foundation friends enjoyed performing-there was an angel that cried, a stubborn camel, some very bouncy stars that made the stage bang and another star whose bottom was hanging out of her tights!
We put our tree up this weekend and now the house is feeling all festive. You’ve had lots of advent calendars to open each morning-a train with chocolates in, a gift one from Nana, a playmobil one from mummy and daddy and a countdown one from Uncle Tim and Jo.
