Now where were we? Oh yes…Christmas day! What a day! Whilst Mormor stayed at home and had a nap and the turkey was cooking in the oven mamma, daddy and I took Pimms and Cody to the common for a nice Christmas walk (thanks to Marge who took us there!). I think daddy is jealous of mamma and I having Marge as he clearly prefers to take her over his car everywhere we go. We got some pink furry dice for Marge for Christmas! Brilliant!

In the evening, the turkey, daddy, mamma, Mormor and I went to daddy’s childhood house in South Kensington and had dinner with everyone; Nana, Granddad, Auntie Andy, Uncle Mark, cousins Alicia, Olivia and Theo, Auntie Vicky and uncle Sam and cousin Harry, Auntie Michele and Howard. We had loads of fun and Harry and I stayed up for as long as we could then we slept for a few hours before it was time to go home. Again I got loads of Christmas presents at Nana’s; lots of lovely clothes and toys.

The following day (boxing day) mamma took Mormor to the airport, buhu! I miss her so much! Thank you for all the cuddles and the tricks we got up to Mormor, I hope I will see her very soon. In the evening the Wilkins family came for dinner (Auntie Andy, Mark and my cousins Alicia, Olivia and Theo), I had great fun playing with my cousins and showing them my new toys Santa had brought me, one of which is a car that I love!

On the 27^th Nana and Granddad came to visit us and I had my usual lovely Nana cuddles and general fun. The next day we went to Winter wonderland in Hyde Park - it was wonderful, all wintery and lovely! Everyone except for mamma, Uncle Sam, Nana, Granddad, me and Harry went ice skating. It looked like a lot of fun, daddy is very good on the ice, but not as good as Auntie Vicky who used to be a British Champion on skates! She did lots of nice pirouettes and danced like a real princess on the ice! Harry must be so proud of his mummy!

On the 29^th we went to Harry’s naming party, mamma is his ‘good mummy’ which she is so happy about. Mamma had to promise to take care of Harry and guide him through life using some of her wisdom - she was all teary and mushy! Auntie Carrie came down to London (from north England where the Hughes family had celebrated Christmas with H’s family) for Harry’s naming party with my other cousin Benjamin - he is only two weeks younger than me. It was lovely to meet auntie Carrie and cousin Benjamin as I have not met them before, they live in Spain with Benjamin’s three older brothers Roscoe, Sholto and Lorenzo and their dad Hereward (‘H’) and of course my auntie Carrie - their mummy. I hope I get too meet Benjamin’s brothers soon! After the naming party was over mamma and daddy took my cousins Alicia, Olivia and Theo to the Big Easy restaurant on the Kings Road which used to be my dads favourite restaurant when he grew up. I can’t wait until I am big enough to go there! I stayed with Nana and Granddad and Auntie Andy and Mark who looked after me, Harry and Benjamin. Carrie and Benjamin stayed at our house that night which was fun. The following day we went to see Harry again and said bye to Auntie Carrie and Benjamin then we took it easy in the afternoon.

On New Years eve Nana, Granddad, Auntie Andy, Mark, Alicia, Olivia and Theo had to go back to Spain so we went to say good bye and had some final cuddles - thank you all so much for making my first Christmas very special - I hope I see you all soon - maybe in Spain!

As you can tell my daddy has a big family! He has four sisters; Andy, Michele, Carrie and Vicky. Daddy is two years older than Vicky. This means that I have lots and lots of cousins which I have nearly all met now! Except for Roscoe, Sholto and Lorenzo who live in Spain I still have to meet one more who still hasn’t arrived (!) but she should be with us in a about 10 weeks from now! Then we will be four girl cousins and six boy cousins all in all - not bad!

Except for being so busy seeing family over the Christmas daddy, mamma and I have been in the common every day with Pimms and Cody, guess what - they have still not caught any squirrels…I am now seriously thinking of sending them on a hunting course because they are utterly useless, Cody only seem interested in swimming and the lake is frozen over at the moment so he can’t go which makes him a bit grumpy. Pimms is just really cold so she wears her fleece jacket most of the time, mind you I don’t blame her I am always wrapped up nicely in ‘mini-Marge’ (my pram!), snug as a bug in a rug! Mini-Marge is definitely worth a mention here as she is so great! After daddy fixed the puncture the other week she has not disappointed and always keeps me very snug and safe, mamma can go off road properly with her as she has three big wheels and although she gets really muddy going over all the bumps, ice, mud and twigs she never complains! I also sleep so well in Mini-Marge, to be honest it really is the best place for a snooze, during the day I don’t like sleeping anywhere else.

What else? Oh yes, I tried some baby rice the other day (New years eve) - can’t really complain but I much prefer the bottle or mamma for now I think, although the rice mixed with some pear wasn’t too bad - I might give it another try. Just seeing mamma and daddy making such a fuss about me and pulling funny faces and making silly noises makes it worth while - thihi!

I promise to write more frequently from now on (new years resolutions and all that!) but as you can tell there hasn’t been much time over for writing over the festive period as I have had so much fun! Christmas really was worth all the fuss and I can’t wait for Santa to come later this year! Only 355 days to go...

I will load up lots and lots of pictures from Christmas here over the next few days. Thank you Nana for taking so many photos!

xoxo

Mamma and I in Waitrose, Christmas shopping with Nana and Granddad.