We had a lovely Christmas - especially opening the presents. Luca was in charge, handing out the gifts, getting ever more excited with each one that was for him. There were a couple of strange ones, however - one of Jo's presents for Gary was a Science Kit:
Note the top right corner - ages 5 and up. I suppose Gary is more than 5, but what was Jo thinking of?
Worse was to follow with Gary's next present - from Dawn and John - it was a Joke Box. Yes, fake dog turds, nails through fingers and the Pièce de résistance, at least as far as Luca was concerned, was the ring that squirted water - we all got a good soaking.
Ross bought Luca a Monster Truck:
and we got him a Pirate Ship jigsaw - here he is reading the instructions:
Jo helped him complete it:
When it came to opening our present from Dawn and John, there was a slightly embarrassing moment when we spotted the tag that was on the bag it came in:
It's good to re-cycle, but always remove last year's tags before you use the bags again! Dawn, of course, is far too young for Senior Moments, but as I was hanging up our Xmas cards this year, by coincidence, two in a row of the same card appeared and seemed to come from the same source:
Luca wasn't quite sure about a hat he got for a present, but his mother immediately took to it:
Carole also posed with the teeth from the Joke Bag:
Then the team photo - with Ross holding Yoda:
and it's our 39th Anniversary today - and, for the first time ever, Jo remembered and bought me a card!
