Merry Christmas To One And All!

So we were woken up BEFORE the crack of dawn (having gone to sleep at the reasonable hour of 12:30am, after having a lovely turkey dinner at our friends' place) by the sound of two extremely excited children breaking into their stockings.

First things first. A typical HK pose (for you, Julie).You can see how dark it is in the background. We let them open one present each, before we had showers and breakfast.Ooooh, the anticipation...!A new Barbie laptop!!The seriousness of it all.....Woo hoo!!!Kate suddenly realised that Charlie had a load of presents too. So she counted to make sure she had more. She gave up trying to compare when she realised that she had 23 presents. AND the pink, two-wheeled scooter that she has been asking Santa for since last summer...Way hayyyy! Just what I asked for from Santa!!!Wooooo wooooo!Gasp!Oooohhhh!!!New ballet outfit!Getting ready to scoot scoot scootWhat a speedy boy!Scootin'More scootin'True happinessScoot scootThen we got to get into the sleigh decorations...Hanging out of the sleigh..Cheech in the sleighCharlie accidentally on purpose crashed into Kate, really hurting her foot. He kissed her sorry.And then she showed us her foot and we were horrified...So we made Charlie kiss it better...
Kate back on the sleigh, blowing kisses to the riff raff...My handsome husband...And after I asked him to smile, we got this lovely grimace...!