Ben's Blog

Ben had a very enjoyable Christmas and got lots of presents from family and Father Christmas (so he must have been a good boy!).  He had been excited since we first put the Christmas Tree up at the end of November, and we were quite surprised that he actually slept very well on Christmas Eve, even though he was extremely excited at this point and Aaron being up a lot in the night with bad croup.

Ben was the first to get up to find that Father Christmas had been and filled up all the stockings, and he grabbed the first one he saw, even though it wasn’t his, and dragged it in to our bedroom and was about to dig in until we told him that he actually had Aaron’s!  Once he had his own, and Aaron had got up as well, he dived in and started opening his presents.  He got lots of lovely things in his stocking such as new books, chocolate, bath  stuff and other little items.  It didn’t take him long to open them all and he was then ready and raring to go downstairs to see what Father Christmas had left.

When we got downstairs, Ben and Aaron both opened the door to the front room at the same time and they ran through and got even more excited when they saw the stacks of presents that were there!  After getting settled, and having a drink and a snack for breakfast, I started to hand out the presents.  Both boys wanted to open each present and got a bit rowdy at times!  Ben had some great presents such as an Innotab and game (which he had been going on about for weeks and weeks so he was very happy with this!), a WWE wrestling ring play set, an Angry Birds Lego set, a little bus, a Woody doll from Toy Story (awesome!), clothes, binoculars, a Robo fish, DVD’s and more chocolate.  He also had a joint present with Aaron which was a Mario Kart Scalextric set (double awesome!) from Father Christmas.  He loved all of it and played with it all as it was unwrapped, although he was a little disappointed when we got to the last presents! 😉  Eventually, all was opened and it was then about dinner time so we had our Christmas Dinner, which Ben ate some of after having his starters (grapes) and Aaron’s!!

The afternoon was spent watching TV and playing with the toys and it went very quickly indeed.  It was then time to quickly talk to Grandma and Grandpa Tony, and Nan Nan and Pops via Google Video Chat on the laptop.  So both boys were showing off their new toys to them.  By this point they were also getting quite tired, so they had something to eat for tea and it wasn’t long after that they went up to bed.

Ben had a really great, but tiring, Christmas Day and got lots of lovely gifts, so thanks to everyone who gave him something!

Here are some photographs of Ben on the big day! 😉