Happy Christmas

Happy Christmas!  Thank you for all our presents!

Sophie:
I got a purple camera from Mummy and Daddy! I love it and have already taken over 200 photos! I also got a Wii from Granny and Papa which is a lot of fun! I also got a Lego house (from Val and Michael), a pop corn maker (Auntie Cat), a DVD, some books, new playdoh, new pens and a few other things.

Theo:
I got a tool box, some Mega Bloks, a new dressing gown, a 'laptop' and a dustpan and brush! I also got some books and a penguin dressing gown!

Sophie-isms!

We were discussing our cat Percy and how old he was getting,

M: what do you think we'll do when Percy dies?

Sophie: We'll dig a big hole in the garden and then bury him. I'll put a grave on the ground with 'Percy QC, dribbliest cat ever'. When Tiger dies, I'll write "Tiger QC, spottiest cat ever".

M: Then what will happen?

Sophie: Percy will rot, then a bit of him will go to heaven

M: which bit?

Sophie: possibly his brain.

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M: Sophie, can you not sit on Theo's head.
Sophie: but I'm pretending I'm giving birth to him

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M: Sophie, why are you wearing a tea-towel?

Sophie: It's my survival tea-towel against Theo attacks.

Monsters

Theo:
Roar, roar, roar!

Sophie:
Roar! Theo and I have been playing monsters. I chase him, then he chases me! It is a lot of fun. I put a tea-towel round my waist as a survival towel against the Theo monster, he then wanted one!

Hi ho, hi ho, it's off to school I go!

Theo:
As Mummy is a Governor at school, she got invited to attend the Christmas lunch. I went with her. I took my own lunch box, just like Sophie does! I sat with the Reception teacher and ate my lunch like the other big boys!

Fun in the snow

It has been snowing here quite a bit. We've really enjoyed being outside in the snow.

Sophie the Angel

Sophie:
I had my school Nativity play this week. I was an angel. I even sang the songs!

A Christmas Tree

Theo:

I painted this today. It looks like a Christmas Tree...this was by pure chance!

Making the coffee

Theo:
Mummy is training me young, she already has Daddy making her coffee, so here I am getting in some practise!

Photo and video editing at www.OneTrueMedia.com

Our failed weekend

Sophie:
We were meant to go to Brussels this weekend but it didn't happen.
Thursday and Friday looked like this:

1pm Thursday- drive to Daddy's work, pick him up, drive to Heathrow terminal 5
2pm- park car, get on shuttle bus. Receive text saying flight is cancelled
2:30pm-  arrive at terminal, spend ages hanging about, but we get a flight for 8pm Friday
4pm-  flight booked, Mummy finds and internet terminal and finds a hotel
5:30pm- arrive at hotel in Windsor, Theo and I are ravenous and thus foul (well me)
6pm- we eat in the hotel, have a bath and go to bed
8pm-  Theo and I are still awake
9pm-  We're both asleep. Mummy fears we will be very tired the next day

Friday
6:30am- Daddy's snoring wakes us all up
7am- I am very tired and don't handle it well. I scream for a while
7:30am- we become 'that' family at breakfast. I calm whilst Theo charms!
8:30am-  chill in hotel, I potter, rest and argue with anyone
10:30am- we head out to find pharmacist and Mummy picks up 2 caches!
12pm- head to Windsor, have lunch, look at castle, shop. Theo refuses to nap
4pm-  run out of things to do in Windsor so head back to Heathrow
5pm- check in, go through to departures, potter round
5:45pm-  find restaurant and eat, check departure board- flight cancelled!
Finish dinner and head off to stand in first queue.
7pm-  get through passport control, wait for bags
9pm- we are crazy hyper and bored, bags finally arrive!
9:30pm-  get back to arrivals and customer services. 2 hour queue. I start crying. Head honcho takes pity on us and takes us out of queue, rebooks flights for us
10:15pm- wait for shuttle bus, pick up car, drive to Daddy's work, pick up his car, drive back in convoy
11:30pm- get home, get into bed, fall asleep

Saturday
6:30am- Theo wakes up!