Christmas Day 2016

Despite all of us recovering from sickness over the Christmas period we managed to make the most of our Xmas day and had a really good day at home with the kids and all their presents. Surprisingly they did not wake until nearly 8 o'clock so we had a good sleep. Once they were all up and dressed we decided for the first time ever to let them tuck in to their presents before having breakfast (I am not sure we will do this again as none of them were too interested in eating once they had loads of new toys to play with!).

 

My nemesis this year was definitely kids toys packaging. My god some of the packaging is so extreme that I think it would survive being dropped from 30,000ft from a Boeing into a head of stampeding elephants and still remain unbroken.For the kids main presents this year Joshua got a BMX bike (which he was limited in use at the moment because of his knee), Brandon got a laptop and Holly got a Karaoke machine. All 3 of them did very well and got some lovely presents as you can see from the pictures. Santa also left us a really nice family present this year - a PlayStation 4!

 

Christmas dinner was lovely and we all ate as much as we could despite not having much of an appetite with the illness. Holly got tired around 7pm as she hadn't had a daytime nap so she went to bed quite early. But the two boys stayed up until we went to bed at about 10 to midnight in the end. It was really nice to enjoy more of Xmas day with them and there just seemed no need to send them to bed as they were not tired and didn't have to get up for anything the next day. So we played games, watched some movies and played on the new PS4.

 

With the Elf gone his last good deed before leaving was to lay the dinner table all read for Xmas day.

Caught a sneaky photo of Santa as he did the drop off at Midnight on Xmas Eve.

 

Santa made his visit on Xmas Eve and the presents around the tree looked very impressive.

Holly wastes no time at all and is first to tuck in to a present.

A very happy Joshua with his Pikachu teddy from Build-A-Bear.

Joshua with he new West Ham Onesie (size 12-13!!!!!).

Brandon also got a West Ham onesie.

Brandon with a Hot Wheels builder kit.

Joshua got this really cool boat racing track with miniature motorised boats.

Holly with her battery powered pattern drawing turtle.

Brandon loved his new laptop with a muscle car skin.

Holly's presents had a common theme of Sofia The First this year. This was her singing Sofia doll.

Oh no, not more Play-doh for Holly.

Holly loves painting so Santa brought her a Princess to paint.

Joshua's new BMX bike.

Holly really enjoyed playing with Brandon with his new Hot Wheels builder set.

Joshua's boat racing track with motorised boat and shark attack.

A Very happy little Holly watching her turtle make some art designs all over the kitchen floor (literally at times!).

Despite an injured knee Joshua managed to test out his BMX (whilst wearing his West Ham onesie!). To be honest I was excited to have a go on it as well and see if I could still pull off an endover, wheelie and bunny hop.

Xmas dinner is served at Wick Palace and the 5 Kings settle down to our festive feast.

Some after dinner antics with the "Say it don't spray it game".

Joshua trying to eat a brussel sprout with the mouth guard in place. Not a pleasant sight.