Sunday, 26 December 2010

Block Party

Ahhh, Boxing Day. According to something I read today, it's the one day on which it's acceptable to eat trifle for breakfast. I love trifle for breakfast any day of the year. Unfortunately the trifle I fancy is something that only my Mum makes. It's nothing like anything I've ever encountered anywhere else, except when my Nana was alive and she would make it. The unfortunate thing is that my Mum doesn't do deliveries ...
Today I slept in, brought coffee back to bed once I did lope downstairs, listened to the music that is someone else doing the dishes - thanks Dad!! Then Sweeney came up with part of his lego haul from yesterday and we spent what felt like twelve years putting the bottom of a speedboat together.

Then we went to a barbecue at Sweeney's Uncle Dom and Auntie Emma's house, where I found that I can beat a nine-year-old at table tennis.

Home again, and in honour of it being Boxing Day and a holiday and all, we had chips and dip for dinner and Sweeney stayed up well beyond bedtime.

And I finished off the speedboat, then felt all lego-hungry and knocked up a few other vehicles and a petrol station. In other news, preschool broke up for Christmas on Friday. To celebrate, Lana, the incredibly clever face-painter-who-also-does-the-food-for-the-kids painted all the kids up. She's the woman behind all the tigers, cheetahs, leopards, goblins, pirates and whatnot that Sweeney arrives home as. She totally researched Spiderman, just for Sweeney and his Spiderman-crazy friends. He campaigned hard to avoid the bath that night ...

Hope your Christmas is turning out just as Spidey as you'd like!! Ours is. I'm going to make an aeroplane now ...

3 comments:

Catching the Magic said...

Ha, ha, loving your lego creations and sounds like a fabulous Christmas at your house. I get addicted to lego when the children get it out... they've usually left it to play something else, whilst I'm still there building and constructing!

All the best for a wonderful 2011! Sarah

Miss Smith said...

We had a lego marathon on Christmas too. In fact, Harry even stopped unwrapping his presents to construct his big lego plane (1.5 hours). Such is the mighty power of lego.
Happy Christmas!

Jill said...

My son is 23 and this is the first year that I didn't get legos for him for Christmas. We swam in them for years. I might have to toss some on the floor for old times sake! Glad you had a good Christmas. We did too. Everyone's all better?

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