Has Father Christmas been?

I know that from now on, not many Christmas mornings will be spent lying in bed waiting for Tilly to wake up.   I savoured the fact that she is oblivious to the occasion, she woke and played happily unaware of the presents downstairs.  The underneath of the tree was practically groaning from all the presents for her.  I'd bought her a few things and to our surprise many of our friends had also sent her presents too.  If I'd have known that I'd have bought her one present!   Her big present was a pink ride on car that grows with her, as a rocker, rider thingy with 7, yes 7 stages!  She also got rattles, magic bopping hammers, clothes, books, bath toys, farm animals and maracas.  So many toys.  Quite frankly I think she'd have been happy with all the Christmas cards.  We should have just opened one and opened the others over the next few days - extending the joy of Christmas but we too were impatient to see what all the things were.   Tilly sat in the middle of all the toys looking totally bemused at all of these shiny new things in front of her.  Certainly one of her early favourites was the present from nursery; a big drum, tambourine and maracas - especially shaken in time with the music from her pink car.  She was excited and then confused, often seeming to check just who exactly was making which noise. 

In an effort to get Christmas dinner ready we had overshot the time for Tilly's lunch, so she had a jar of turkey and cranberry food. I felt ashamed that I couldn't even prepare her first Christmas meal!  She sat down for her lunch at 12.15pm, she'd finished hers but continued to sit and play and entertain us throughout dinner and was still there at 2pm.  What a star!  

"But I want lamb for dinner!"

Our first Christmas was lovely.  Mum and Tilly were making each other laugh which was just lovely to watch, I know that Tilly is enjoying mum being here and she'll miss her when she goes home, we all will, thankfully we still have plenty of time before that happens.  And I know mum is loving being with Tilly, watching them today was so funny as they both giggled and played silly games.  Meanwhile, she continued to attempt to crawl and is so frustratingly close.