Christmas is Near

My countdown says we are into single figures. I love this - I've been watching it for almost a month! It gave me the "hurry up!" I needed to get out and do some Christmas Shopping. As of today, I have one present to get. My dd and I went halves in a DS Lite - and I need to go and make my final payment and collect it, wrap it and call it quits...

I went clothes shopping for my 1yo nephew and imagine my surprise when I was told at the counter "go and get another pair of shorts! It's buy one get one free!!!!" woohoo, thankYOU very much! The special was also on dresses. So I came back with my DD and we bought 4 dresses and a pair of denim shorts for under $50! My dd wasn't too sure about the "pink" in the outfits, but she got lots of nice comments when she was wearing one of the dresses today, so she's feeling pretty special! Actually, truth be told, I think she felt pretty good in the shop - she wore one of the dresses and her denim shorts out of the change room and didn't take them off until bed time! I had to pay for them by just taking the tags to the checkout :)

We had a mini Christmas today, for my nephew Brayden. He's off interstate tomorrow, to spend Christmas with his Dad's side of the family. We got him a gardening set - and he absolutely LOVED it...in fact he held onto the big shovel for most of the afternoon. It went from digging dirt, to shovelling wrapping paper, being used as a baseball bat and almost a lethal weapon!!! I found a picture on the internet of the shovel he was playing with. We bought the items individually, and we didn't get the garden fork. He wore the gloves most of the afternoon, until his little brother threw one into the toilet! After that he just wore his new Spiderman hat and Ninja Turtle sunnies... He's a little dude!

He's off to NSW tomorrow - to see his horse!! His horse comes before his dad, it's neat to have this insight into a child's way of thinking.

Tyson had to say good bye to one of his good friends today. He had a good time at the farewell pool party, but he was pretty sad when he realised that was the last time he may ever see Adam.. Their family is moving to QLD. His friend Ridley had a going away party a couple of weeks ago - so that's two friends leaving town soon :( Thankfully he has four good friends that will be in his class in 2008.

Our eldest dd is in Adelaide playing tennis. She's trying to be soooo grown up...she wants to spend all her money on a mobile phone that does everything except the dishes!! I guess that's what happens when your friends are all older than you....I'm sure there will be more of this sort of thing in the next few years!

My song for today is Six White Boomers. If you are feeling Christmassy, check it out and have a sing a long!

This is our Christmas photo for this year :) We always take one and send it as a double page 7x7 layout for Andrew's mum and dad, instead of a Christmas Card. We get the kids to write on the page each year.