Mature Christmas

At our family Christmas breakfast last Saturday we were all struck by the mature approach taken by the three, four and six year olds present. Instead of the extreme excitement and hyper activity of previous years, followed by the inevitable exhaustion and emotionalism, all the kids were very calm and considered in their approach to gift giving and receiving, and displayed their beautiful manners to each other throughout our four hour breakfast celebration.

Ella was thrilled with her new Oobie sundress from one of Ros' favourite shops at Sawtell (thank you Ros). Size 6 looks like it will fit perfectly!
For Ollie and Angus it was a Star Wars Christmas. So there were plenty of smiles going around as the packages were opened.....

and stacked so carefully to make a tower of boy joy!

Ollie received his first Meccano set.

......which kept the Grandpas very busy for an hour or so.

Luckily Ella had been given her first Meccano set too, so that gave Ollie something to practise on while the Grandpas worked on his set!

It was Ollie's idea to have a Christmas chocolate cake to round off our celebratory breakfast (and a bowl of jibbly jelly). I think it was Claire's idea to light some candles...no doubt heavily influenced by all the amazing Christian Christmas stories Ollie brings home from Scripture classes at his (government) school.

There is something that makes all kids VERY serious as candles on the cake are lit. It must be the thought of all that sugar and CHOCOLATE that is almost in their grasp!

But for most of the morning it was all about concentrating on playing, with great focus and discipline, with their beautiful new toys!