Christmas 2009

The build-up to Christmas this year has been quite lovely. Linus is well and truly at an age to be rather excitable and interested in the whole thing. He loved his advent calendar, he loved the decorations and lights (oh, it looks soooo beautiful Mummy) and he has spent much time telling me all about Father Christmas (woe betide anyone who refers to him as Santa!).

He very sweetly told me one day that he had decided what to get his brothers for Christmas, a dinosaur for Gabriel because he loves dinosaurs, and a cuddly toy for Asa- an owl, to be specific. So on an afternoon shopping trip we managed to sneak away from Daddy and the other boys and go and buy our gifts, then wrap them once we got home. So cute!!

Linus didn't have a specific Christmas with-list because he apparently likes "everything", so we got him his first proper big boy's bike. He was rather underwhelmed with it when he came down in the morning- or maybe so overwhelmed with the whole thing that it just didn't show? Either way he'd have been happy enough just with his stocking I think.

We toyed with the idea of not putting stabilisers on his bike, and letting him just learn how to ride it, but the general icy-ness outside and his natural catiousness meant that they're on for the moment, but watch this space for proper bike-riding announcements!!

Here he is eating his candy cane, which I ended up with because "I don't really know why it has to be so hard"

Looking a bit worried, but getting the hang of it!