An early christmas

Grandma, Grandad, Aunty Sarah and Uncle Andy all fly off tomorrow to spend Christmas in Disneyland so we had our Christmas get together early this year.

When we got there GreatGrandma and Grandpa were there and I enjoyed showing them my new trousers



Me and Great Grandpa enjoyed pulling crackers together



ohh I wonder whats inside



Ohh a puzzle!



I made Grandad hold a cushion (Mummy isnt sure what the game was)



Mummy got this lovely picture of me with Daddy



We shared presents. Here is Sarah and Andy playing with their sock monkeys



And Aunty Sarah had made me a gorgeous bear in a bed/bag! It's great







and a lovely knitted cape too!



I also got a lovely tree from Grandma and Grandad and said 'I wanted that!' when I saw it



I got chocolate (which I had already told Mummy 'Maybe I will get chocolate as a present?'



I had nice cuddle with Grandma



We all enjoyed looking at our books (Mummy is very excited by hers and cant wait to start having a go aat making the beautiful things inside)









Thank you everyone for all our lovely presents! Hope you have a great time away and Merry Christmas!!

Walking in a winter wonderland....

The woods look amazing in the snow!







On the way in I told mummy there was fairies. They had come out of the woods to see this rocket ship in the sky!



In the woods I saw another fairy climbing this tree all the way to the top. Mummy loves this picture daddy took of the tree



In the woods we had lots of fun running around and having snowball fights

let it snow, let it snow, let it snow...

lots to blog so pictures can tell the story













first snowman attempt wasnt great as snow was too fluffy



by the afternoon the snow was better, good enough for snowball fights



and brilliant for snowmen! hurrah!

a bit of our week..

making fabric faces





hand and foot print reindeers



and handprint holly



playing on daddys guitar





laying a trail of pine nuts so i could find my way home!





catching the first winter snowflakes





and some more etsy love! some new little friends for our seasonal table from here

gingerbread house and family movies

We have had a really lovely family day today.

This morning we had lots of fun building a gingerbread house. Mummy had made the pieces last night using the recipe and templates she found here and stuck them together using an egg free royal icing recipe she found here.



When the icing was nice and hard we set to work decorating it all. Mummy put white chocolate buttons on the roof to make tiles and I helped a bit too.



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I decorated the front of the house and made windows and a door





Daddy helped me to put some sweeties on the front of the roof and then I helped by eating some of the sweets - yum!



Mummy made a snowman and a Christmas tree which I also decorated with sweets







Here's the finished house which now sits next to our nativity in the living room!





I really really enjoyed this activity!

Afterwards we made some popcorn (I loved watching it all popping in the pan and kept saying 'wow!!') and then snuggled on the sofa to watch a nice family film (heffalump movie) together

It was a really lovely day!

some recent drawings

I have recently started giving all my little people really lovely smiley faces and rosey cheeks too. Here's a few of my latest people drawings

This one has hairy arms (I sat in bed yesterday pointingg out the hairs on mine, Mummys and Daddys arms)



This one has a plate of yummy food



and this one is holding some food to eat

Some christmassy pics

Polishing my shoes for st nicholas on saturday night (he left me some stickers and some little chocolates!) Happy st Nicholas day to any of you who celebrate, sorry its a bit late!



A picture of santa



A snowy tree and a christmas stocking I made



A nativity scene I made (I asked mummy to make me a donkey etc and then i drew all the faces and stuck them all down).



My clay snowmen (mummy helped me twist the scarves).







My other clay models



A rather modern looking sleigh I panted (black is my favourite colour to paint or colour with at the moment)



And my book advent (The christmas faries are bringing me a seasonal book to read each day). NB: mummy says most of the books are from last years seasonal table/christmas gifts or were bought from carboots for around 10p each and the plan is for these same books to come out each year until I outgrow them! My favourite book so far is 'snow'