In the lead up to Christmas Henry had told us that he wanted Santa to bring him a Fireman's costume, a fire helmet and a fire hose. Santa searched high and low for those things and found them all. At the last minute Santa also decided to get Henry a toy replica of Tom's Helicopter from his favourite show - Fireman Sam. Once that was opened everything else was forgotten about. He went through the actions of tearing paper off presents but wasn't really interested in anything underneath it. The only thing he truly loved was the helicopter.
He woke late because we'd been out late on Christmas Eve at my parents house. Maya insisted on sleeping in his room beside him so that she would be awake when he woke up but she was up a long time before he was. She kept prodding him and poking him in the hope that she would get him up.
My sisters had called at around 7AM hoping they'd get here in time to see Henry wake up and see what Santa had brought him. He slept until almost 8AM and then took a few minutes to take it all in. He looked around the room, spotted his santa sack full of toys and said "oh, is that for me?" and then set about tearing the paper off whatever was in it.
We spent Christmas Eve at my mum's house and had, of course, a very special and delicious three course meal prepared exclusively by her. My family joined us for Christmas Day at my house. We ate, we drank champage, we played cricket in the park across the road and then played some more board games until late in the evening.
All of us scored this Christmas, especially Henry and Maya.
We hope yours was joyful, peaceful and rowdy all at the same time.
2 comments:
It sounds like a wonderful day. We had 6 inches of snow, so people here were sledding and making snow men.
I'm glad Henry had a good Christmas.
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