Princesses Christmas Dinner

Invisible food
Originally uploaded by Ella's Ma.

After that busy weekend we had a few short days in creche and then it was Christmas Eve. That's a strange day. You're waiting for Santa and excited and wondering when it's going to start snowing. We had a good day though. Playing with all our old toys. And lots of people arriving. Mammo came with bags of presents for under the tree and food for Christmas Day, Mark and Jill arrived to make mulled wine for the grown ups to drink. Emma and Jamie called with Clare to help them drink it. And don't forget about Ross.

checking out baby clare
Originally uploaded by markandjill.

So we spent the afternoon squealing with delight and insisting on both running to the door to see who it was every time the doorbell rang. Especially Riodhna who hates to miss the front door and was very exicted thinking it was Mark every time. She's a bit obsessed by Mark at the moment. If she hasn't seen him for a little while, she wants to call him on the phone for a chat just to catch up.

checking the new wheels
Originally uploaded by markandjill.

Anyway back on topic, we managed to get to sleep on Christmas Eve, only a little bit later than usual. And Santa Claus came. When we woke up in the morning at half eight, there was no snow. I couldn't believe it. I thought there had to be snow. But it turns out that because Santa and the reindeer also use magic, they don't need snow in every country they go to. Santa had drunk his milk and left only a few crumbs and rudolph ate most of his carrot. Riodhna finished it off for him!

Santa brought loads of presents for both of us. I got a princess camera and a princess dress and polly pocket (the surprise I asked for) and some books and some jigsaws and sleeping beauty dvd. And that was just from Santa. I got loads of other lovely presents and clothes and everything from all my relations and from friends. And Riodhna got a red and yellow car, a princess dress, peppa aqua draws, some books and little mermaid dvd. And loads more from friends and relations. So we were very lucky. And we were opening presents all day. Or so it seemed.

Of course on Christmas day as well as getting a lot of presents, you also have to have lots of visitors and eat lots of food. We did all of that. Mark and Jill couldn't stay for dinner because they had to go to Mark's family. We never had Clare for Christmas before - although she's got quite big, this year she was still smaller than the turkey but I bet by next year she won't be.