Christmas is coming

We've just finished making the Yule Log, just needs to be iced in a log like fashion. Lets hope we can finish it before the bowl gets licked, could be a first.

Toby has been very busy at school, his reading is coming along although he does tend to guess rather than sound it out. His class were part of the schools Christmas Pot Pourri, (what's wrong with a Nativity Play I wondered) so we practised Away in a Manger and Jingle Bells, only to find that at the performance it was two completely different songs and he had been pulling our legs, still he did a wonderful job and seemed to really enjoy it. The whole school all went to see the Panto in Horsham which was a real highlight, especially as they got ice cream in the interval and had a ride in a bus.

I took Toby to Fishers Farm to see Father Christmas in his grotto, other than being a little overawed by it, he loved it, we sang Jingle Bells with the man himself (thankfully we had already practised!) but then we went to see the elves who said he could choose any present from the shelves that he wanted, that took some time, but he came away very happy with a new tractor and trailer.

We will be having a nice quiet family day for Christmas, then we head off to visit friends and family on Boxing Day.

We have started some new after school activities to keep us both busy, swimming on Wednesdays and following in his Cox family footsteps he trampolines on Fridays, which he is surprisingly good at, he has already got 2 badges which he is very proud of, then in the New Year he will also join Multi Sports which is held in school after lessons on Tuesdays and hopefully cooking on Mondays so busy busy. (I've just uploaded the Yule Log, but it doesn't look much like a log, more a splodge!)