After several attempts this is the best photo of all dogs and child. I'll give you three guesses WHICH one wasn't holding the sit-stay and couldn't resist making the girls sniff for bikkies. First two don't count!
One of the little red poppet, clean and dry and NOT covered in water and mud for a change. (She is OBSESSED with digging in the little pool and dam!)
Decorating the christmas tree at home
Cheeky little beggar... he's grabbed one of the little gold musical instrument decorations from the tree and is pretending to play it, complete with hummed not-quite-in-key song tune.
The tree, stockings and such. The gold wire tree on the mantle holds our special breakable baubles, we choose a new one together each year to add to the collection.
Random La photo (Hey look at that! He CAN hold still! Photographic proof folks!)
I asked him to do nice photos for Christmas. "But mum, I want to RUN!"
Pensive critter. While he's mister smiley a lot of the time, we're definitely in THAT stage of things where he's old enough to know what he wants to do, not old enough to do it all and immensely frusterated with that fact.
After he'd been curious about the Santas in the shops for weeks we took him to Melbourne's city square to meet one there. Following in last years footsteps (where he pitched a tanty over having his merry attempts to catch pigeons interrupted to see Santa) he wasn't really clued into Santa's cued speech of 'what do you want for christmas'! We don't really do the "Santa is a magic person who flies around with reindeer and gives you stuff you want if you're good" thing so much as the tale of the original St Nicolas and that the Santa's now represent a visible wish to continue the spirit of using our bounty to help others, the needy and share our love with family/friends.
Poor Santa... really not what the guy was expecting, though we did get some high fives in.
He loved the big green tree... it was TALL and has BUTTONS you press to make NOISES...
One of him with Nic
And with me
Before turning into a ratbag, flipping upside down to watch the pigeons and carriage horses.
Why is this black and white? Artistic liscence? Nah... it just looks nicer when you can't see how muddy the bathwater is after "helping" garden all day!
1 comment:
Gorgeous photos.
We don't do Santa either. I tell my kids the same thing as you. I have a problem with lying to them about the fat man in the red suit and then expecting them to believe me at other times.
They know not to tell other kids that he isn't real but they are confused when adults act like he exists.
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