The one with the ho ho ho!

To say that Squidge was excited about Christ­mas this year would be like say­ing the pope was only a lit­tle reli­gious.  On Christ­mas eve Squidge was FREAKING OUT and wanted to go to bedright­thisvery­mo­ment now! Now! NOw! NOW!!!!  Before bed we put on some warm boots and our coats and went out­side to sprin­kle rein­deer dust on the front lawn– so Rudolph would know where to land the sleigh.

Then it was inside to change into our new Christ­mas jam­mies and put out snacks for Santa and the reindeer.

She didn’t even want to have sup­per– she had to get to sleep right away! LOL Wal and I almost peed our pants laugh­ing.  We did man­age to get her to stop a moment and read The Night Before Christ­mas.  I bought a fan­tas­tic pop up book ver­sion and it was such a good buy.  Ear­lier in the week we (Wal) tried to read a Christ­mas Carol to her but it was too grown up of a story and she got bored.  The Night Before Christ­mas is was just right and got her in the mood– like she needed some help!!  She was buzzing with excite­ment but man­aged to get right to sleep.

She woke us up around 7am say­ing “He’s come! He’s come!”  She didn’t even have to go down­stairs to check– she was cer­tain she’d been a good girl.  So off we all went down stairs to see if he had in fact come.

She got loads of things.  I’m list­ing it all just so I can remember.

cam­era, dog on a lead, my model doll head, fuzzy jacket/hat/gloves, shirt w/ sequined pen­guin, books, Char­lie and Lola mug and cookie plate set, stock­ing stuffers, Padding­ton Bear, can­dle, Tin­ker­bell mini fairy friends, Belle jew­elry, Kath Kit­son umbrella.