As you might expect, Ishbel was first up on Christmas Day. We made her wait until after 8am before going to wake up the boys - quietly, gently we said. She wasn't.
After presents opening - XBox for the children (all the Cowan grandchildren got one it seems), IOU for a "real" dog for the boys, trampoline for Ishbel, hammock for Ian, jewellry for Heidi, it was down to work for Ian and I.
I set to making lunch while Ian put the trampoline together. He did ok until trying to get the bouncy canvas bit in place. We ended up dragging the boys away from their XBox to tug and pull at the canvas while I tried to hook it to the springs. We tugged and pulled and tugged and pulled and were pulling our hair out as to how ANYONE managed to put one on when Ishbel gave us the benefit of her reading the instructions and informed us there was a special spring tool to help us get the springs in place! It was easy after that and Ishbel had her trampoline.
About midday I finally had lunch ready to start cooking and just as the chicken was going in the oven Karen, Dan and the boys arrived. We had a lovely lunch of chicken, ham, roast veg and salads and fruit mince pies with cream and little meringue nests with cream and fruit. Xavier was very obliging and slept through lunch and came awake to play afterwards.
At one point Xavier was looking over Karen's shoulder at the boys playing on the computer. He was watching them really intently and got quite aninmated. He looked like he'd like to join them.
Today, Boxing Day, has been quiet and relaxed. Ian, Ishbel and I took a quick trip down to Springwood Library to empty the After Hours Return bin before a trip to the hardware shop to get hooks to hang Ian's hammock on. After much debate about where the hooks should go, he got it installed nicely and was soon relaxing with a Lee Childs book. And there he stayed all afternoon.Flickr slideshow of Christmas will be posted in the right hand side for a while.
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