Merry Christmas!

From us all, we hope you had a great Christmas and are looking forward to the New Year. We certainly had a great time. Duncan (Cam’s bother) flew in late on the 23rd. He and Brook get on like a house on fire.

The 24th was a scorcher day. We spent most of it out in the back yard having water fights, playing in Brook’s pool, and kicking / throwing around Brook’s ball. Surprisingly Brook prefers to be chased with the water sprayer than squirting other people – except when he is grumpy, and then he likes to do the squirting, not be squirted. The baseball set Matt & Co gave Brook (foam thankfully) has been great. Brook does seem to like throwing the ball into the garden instead of to the person with the bat, but it is all fun. A great BBQ and wine finished the day off well.

Christmas day started off with the cutest thing. Brook got up (around 6:30) and saw all the presents under the tree. He was ecstatic and could not wait to get into them, but we told him he had to wait until Duncan was up and that he was more than welcome to go knock on his door to get him up. So there is Brook banging on the door going “Duncan, Duncan” [you have to say that in a slow whinny manner to get the full effect]. After raising Duncan from the dead, we all had a blast opening the gifts (most of which were Brook’s). We had to actually encourage him to open the next present as he was dead keen to be playing with whatever he had just opened. Brook’s loot list was very impressive (thanks everyone and Santa!). He went crazy when he saw he had gotten a track set for his Thomas the Tank Engine train collection. Whilst this seems to be a favourite, he uses all his new toys when playing with it. And the new books are a god send for Joss and I, as we have read the other to him a million times over already.

After a fab lunch, we went to the beach for the afternoon. Brook is a little weary of the water, but enjoyed throwing everything into the sea. We spent a couple of hours throwing around the Frisbee and ball. Sun screen lotion is a great invention!

We then quickly moved onto Joan’s (Cam’s aunt) place for a BBQ tea. Getting together with the wider family is just what Xmas is about. Not quite the size of the family gatherings of old, but that is probably a good thing at the end of a long hot day. Again Brook charmed the lot, even to the point Andrea thought she wanted a kid of her own! I did not see her volunteer to change his nappies though, so think it was short lived.

Now that Duncan has left again (headed to Invy to catch up with Mum, Dad, and Jenny for a second Christmas), Brook has been asking “Where’s Duncan?” so he is clearly missing him. We got a heap of photos (off Dunc’s digital camera, so I will endeavour to post a few for you all).

Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year!
Love Cam, Joss, & Brook.

28. December 2003 »

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