We went to Bluewater on Saturday to buy our Christmas presents. We arrived at 10am and there were lots of parking spaces. Inside it was pleasantly uncrowded. Jake was clutching his taggie and sucking furiously on his radish, having not had his usual morning nap. He loved the decorations. When he saw the big Christmas baubles and stars he said “wow!”.
There was a Christmas market outside so we ventured into the bitter cold for some mulled wine. As we were sipping, a couple of reindeers walked by. I rubbed my eyes and though “my, this wine must be strong”. Looking again it was true there were two real life reindeers walking about. Jake had a cuddle with one and stroked his neck. They then started to get a little friskly and we didn’t want to get Jake too close to those sharp antlers.
We went into “The Christmas Shop” and bought some new decorations for the tree. Jake chose a sparkly green elephant while Amy went for the more traditional bauble stylee. Mid-afternoon and still the crowds hadn’t arrived. It was busy but nothing out of the ordinary. Later we bought our tree from the hardware shop in Ladywell. By the end of the day the tree was dressed and ALL the presents were wrapped :-).
Yesterday we went to a party at a friends house. Jake was in an awful mood, having not had his nap(my fault this time!). He was better when we arrived because he could explore and play with the other children. He had fun climbing on and off an empty chair, but when the chair was taken by an adult he exclaimed “get down now!”. Quite “dorty” but cute nonetheless.
This morning Jake was studying the tree and trying hard not to pull off the decorations. I asked him which one he chose and he pointed to the green elephant. While doing this he reenacted when he chose it by saying “dis one!” and then said “I chose it”! What a poppet.