Late Christmas Present

I had a great time yesterday. First I went to gymnastics for the first time. That was really fun. Lots of kids playing on trampettes, balance beams and rolling over mats. I think the lady thought I was really good and I'm looking forward to going back.

After that Gran and Grandad came over to see us. They were a bit late and I was very hungry. We had plans to go out for lunch but I just wanted Mummy to give me lunch right away. When they did arrive, Gran and Grandad had brought a present that was supposed to be mine at Christmas. Unfortunately it had gotten lost in the post and only just arrived. It's a fantastic wooden ball track. You can build your own track for the marbles to run down. Suddenly, lunch didn't seem to matter anymore! But unfortunately everyone else insisted.

As it turned out, lunch was pretty good, and I'm glad we went, although I did end up with a tummy ache from eating too much sausage, mash and ice cream with chocolate sauce. Everyone else thought their lunch was yummy too. And Daddy was even happier when they took vouchers Mummy had that were about 10 years old, and when the waitress forgot to charge us for the ice creams and said she was unable to fix it when we told her about it. I think Daddy will definitely take us back there!

After lunch we went back home and Auntie Vikki, Uncle Ian and cousin Dylan were there. It was good to see them and Auntie Vikki let me hold cousin Dylan, which was nice. He's growing really quickly and I think I'll soon be able to play with him.

In all the excitement, I think I forgot to thank Gran and Grandad properly for the ball run. So, Thank You Gran and Grandad. It's a lovely toy and Mummy says there are lots of other parts that can be added to it so I'm really excited about that too.

Snow

I guess most folk reading this (if you're in the UK) will have enjoyed a tremendous amount of snow recently. Well we haven't. And I don't think I've ever seen Mummy so disappointed (which is really saying a lot). We had a nice 2 or 3 inches of it on Monday with both Mummy and Daddy being sent home from work to save them from being stranded but then there's been nothing more than a couple of dustings since while the rest of the UK have had *loads* of it.

Luckily, Daddy, having sneaked away early from work on Monday came and picked me up from nursery and we did a bit of sledging, built a snowman and had a massive snowball fight (which was particularly good when Mummy joined us). It was really funny when Daddy, having suited up in all his fancy waterproof clothing and walking boots came into the house when we were finished and while waxing lyrical about how dry and warm he still was, took his hat off (which Mummy had hit once or twice with a snowball) and dropped lots of snow down the back of his neck!

It's been just as well we made the best of it on Monday afternoon though as there's been no snow since. Daddy and I even managed to get the car washed yesterday.