Rootwo found a set of joke teeth from somewhere.

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Rootwo found a set of joke teeth from somewhere.
This morning, we visited Santa at Amberley. We had a fantastic time exploring all the Christmas activities, too. Together with Ian and his kids, we rode the train, took a trip on the bus, sent a telegram to Santa, and made clay Christmas decorations.
I was delighted that Ian and I could geek out on all the engineering bits and bobs. Roo and Rootwo loved having their friends to play with.
It’s probably the earliest we’ve ever done it, but we put up the Christmas tree. Roo loved it and was actually quite helpful. Rootwo insisted on taking everything off that we’d just put on.
After dropping Roo at school this morning I walked home via the beach. I took a photo I rather liked.
I haven’t been to a in person board on Friday for almost two years. It was great to see everyone again and play a few games.
For some reason we’d booked two Santa trips this year. Not that the kids seemed to mind too much. This morning we boarded the boat and glided gently towards Arundel Wetland’s Lapwing Hide where Santa had temporally set up shop. Apparently Roo and Rootwo were on the nice list, but only just. They’d better be very well behaved over the next couple of weeks then!
Roo and I went to see the Kings Chamber Orchestra. They were amazing.
The fates conspired to cancel our spa day. Oh well, we had a lovely day with Rootwo at Amberley museum and scooting along the seafront.
Stuff Rootwo says: When we saw Santa and asked him “who’s that?” — “It’s the Christmas tree man”.
We’d had a bit of a nothing day, avoiding planned activities to try and keep Covid at bay. There’s a lovely playground up at Burpham with gorgeous views over the downs. We took the football for a kick about on the field. Then the kids let of some steam in the playground; with a chocolate treat after.
We’re so incredibly lucky to live near these places. England is so pretty this time of year.
When asking about something he doesn’t understand: “what’s that is?”
We went for a walk with some of our wonderful pod friends.
Yeah! I’m officially on holiday. Katie has one more day of work so I took the kids to the Aldingbourne Country Centre.
It feels like we’re on the brink of another lockdown, thank you, Omicron variant. No one really knows what’s going to happen. Naturally, everyone disagrees.
Hopefully we’ll be off to my parents tomorrow, but we’ll see what the LFTs (and the government) says in the morning.
Made it to M&Ds early and surprised them. Very grateful for a Christmas together this year.
We went to Cadbury World. It was somewhat hectic and stressful but Roo loved it. She loved the chocolate tasting, the weird ride, the packed Santa show. It was unclear if Rootwo enjoyed himself; he cried and screamed a lot, as any self respecting two year old is wont to do. We did eat an ungodly amount of chocolate, so that (somewhat) made up for the lack of social distancing and people not wearing masks.
Got Roo playing proper Monopoly. I love this old set my parents brought in the 70s.
Update: I’m big into the development game.
Guess who won?
Playing another classic from my youth: Lost valley of the dinosaurs game.
How cute is this kid?
Merry Christmas one and all.
What a difference a year makes. Last year we spent Christmas in lockdown. This year, mainly thanks to the vaccines, we were able to get together my my Mom and Dad.
The kids opened their gifts from Santa at 6 am in our bed. It was very sweet. Later, we were able to relax and open our gifts thanks to a ready-prepped Cook Christmas dinner.
In the evening we visited Katie’s sister and the kids enjoyed some much needed cousin time.
Went for a Christmas Day walk with my old man.
Christmas number two.
Finally publishing updates to my own website and syndicating to Twitter thanks to @indiekit
Lovely to meet up with the fam.
This boy can jump
Playing Monopoly again.
Cooking on gas now.
Ok. She wins.
We teach ‘em young in this house.
Holy heck we actually made it for a night away.
Lovely meal out with my lovely wife.
This is what Katie described as “sex in a glass”.
Cousins!
Roo’s cousins made a treasure hunt. She loved finding all the clues.
There’s a pleasure in chucking stones into the sea. The bigger, the better. Roo and I cycled down to the beach while Katie and Rootwo were out at a party. She has no idea how much I love spending this one-on-one time with her. She said we should “make a sandcastle, but on the ground”, so we drew one with battlements, turrets, and a portcullis.
Just off to fly my Hawker Moth.
Wild New Year’s Eve with @paulrobertlloyd