And it’s all over for another year. Booooo!

We stayed at my mum’s on Christmas eve so she could watch Callum opening his presents in the morning, so she came to pick us up in the afternoon (after a mad dash to Sainsbury’s to try and find mascarpone for the cheesecake - talk about leaving things until the last minute). We had some chinese food delivered and then I went out for a walk, and met one of Santa’s elves who gave me a special present for Callum to open before he went to bed. What a stroke of luck - It was some lovely christmassy pyjamas for him to wear to bed! How exciting! Callum looked terrified when I told him I had met an elf though, he was looking behind me incase it had followed me home. It was at this point I decided not to mention the fact a big man would be coming into his bedroom while he was asleep quite so much as I had been doing.

Callum hung up his stocking and left some apple juice, a jammy dodger and a carrot for Santa and his reindeers. According to Callum Santa doesn’t like milk, but wanted apple juice in a spiderman cup as it’s his favourite one.

In the night, SANTA CAME!!!!

8.30am the next morning I woke to a very small boy clutching a bulging stocking excitedly telling me that Santa had been and he had left him prizes!!!! We hotfooted it through to gran’s bed to open the stocking. He was so excited. The only thing he had repeatedly asked for was some Pixar Cars cars, which he already had around 30 of. Santa had managed to find 6 that he didn’t already have, so he was absolutely delighted to find them in his stocking.

We eventually managed to get him downstairs for major present opening. This was his “santa has left MORE presents” face.

Last year, I had to virtually force him to open his presents, but not this year. He was so excited and pleased with every single thing he opened. He had a wee play with or at least good look at with whatever he opened before putting it in an ever growing line of toys/games/books before moving onto the next one.

All for me??

We had strategically placed the big present right at the back so he’d open it last. Aye right! He went for the biggest ones first and just climbed over the pile to get to them.

The workbench was a huge hit - thanks gran!

A few more present opening pics:

Bucks Fizz for Breakfast. (Don’t worry, Callum didn’t drink his, it was just
so he could “do cheers”)

I never managed to get a photo of the table this year. I normally always get one. We were somewhat running behind all day. Anyway, dinner was delicious as usual. This was Callum before the 2 hour tantrum he had which started during the main course. *sigh*

I didn’t take many more photos of the evening due to the tantrum killing my Christmas spirit, but here’s a wee one of Callum just before his proper bedtime. He came downstairs all smiles after a while so we let him play for a couple of hours before going back upstairs to bed. Night night Callum, Merry Christmas!

I hope everyone has had a magical Christmas and has a great new year when it comes!