Yep, he got it! Whizzed over to Argos in Brighton with my Mum this morning to collect the Peter Pan Island for Davies for Christmas. It would appear to have been the last one as when I checked availability in store it was out of stock – so hurrah for that 🙂 It does look quite good actually (if hideously plastic and very overpriced at 40 quid!) but given all the reviews I read on Amazon about it last night while trying to track one down saying that even with their degree in toy construction and plastic engineering for the over 4s it took bloody hours to get the thing together, and given that he is getting the pirate ship from my brother which also ‘requires adult assembly’ I think I either need to choose between spending all of Christmas Day bad temperedly making these toys fielding off all offers of help from overexcited small children or drunken, senile relatives I might just make it up in advance!
Went into Asda for a few bits for dinner tonight and also picked up a pair of rudolph pyjamas each for the kids – we started a tradition the year before last of a Christmas eve pressie just before bathtime which is always some festive pjs. They just so happened to have two pairs left in the kids sizes – so Mum paid for them anyway and I have that sorted.
Home for a bit and I did some Christmas maize magic with the kids – Davies was actually very good at it and created some more than passable figures of a Santa and a snowman with some direction, then a squirrel all by himself. Scarlett sort of helped me make a fairy and a reindeer and a Christmas tree before getting bored and getting as many wet and screwed up as possible before I stopped her. Then we brought out one of our glue pens from Baker Ross, (which I bought thinking would be a bit gimicky but are actually fab) and some sequins.
Then Mum went and collected Dad and we had lunch. Ady brought in the Christmas decs from the garage and I went through them. We have plenty of lights, a tree which was new last year and that’s about it, Mum has loads of decs from when we were little that she doesn’t bother with anymore so she is going to kindly donate some to us to save me having to buy more (things like tinsel and hanging decs) and I have decided to do an ‘edible’ tree again this year – decorate it only with edible stuff like biscuits, chocolates, candy canes and so on, we that will all be home made. The kids trees are both up in their rooms now, which is way earlier than I anticipated but having got them out and started to play with them I ended up putting the lights on and decorating them both and then it seemed silly to put them away again – so very very early but at least hidden in their rooms 🙂
I then took Mum to the local £1 shop paradise unit place on the local industrial estate where we picked up a few cheapo bits and pieces for the kids for stocking fillers and that was pretty much our day. Scarlett is absolutely full of a streaming cold – she was up from 9pm-3am in the night so medised’ed up she was asleep by 6.30pm and hopefully will stay that way for a good part of the night – we were planning to go to an Activeo thing tomorrow but it’s in Portsmouth which is at least an hours drive and I don’t think she will be up for it really. So a quiet day planned with maybe a start made on the kids Christmas cards for the MP list exchange if I can face the glitter in the carpet! I’ve got stacks of stuff I should be doing so will write myself a job list and really try to achieve some stuff this week. And no, we didn’t get the greencone in this weekend either 🙁 But we’ve enjoyed each others’ company this weekend and despite the crap night with Scarlett I feel more relaxed tonight than I did on Friday, and certainly more relaxed than I did last Sunday night so I’m calling it a good weekend!