Sorry for my very late Christmas Day entry, but I do have a very good excuse you see. After a week of a very sore throat I finally had to go to the After Hours Dr’s on Christmas Day, and as it turns out I had a temperature and Tonsillitis, after 2 days of antibiotics I feel almost human again, the pain was awful I tell you awful!


Alexander woke on Christmas Day at 12:01am would you believe, he came running into our room with a gift from Santa he had found at the end of his bed. He ripped it open alongside our bed in near darkness and he excitedly and happily went back to bed till the morning. He sat in our bed opening his Christmas stocking gifts; by the end our bed was full of paper and a very happy little boy.

Jayme and Sarah came over to watch shear the morning with us and watch Alexander open his gifts. While we were talking to Nanny and Granddad on Skype, we took him out side to have a look and see if there was anything in the back yard for him. (Last night and several of bottles of wine later David, our friends Karen and Phil and I had assembled the trampoline for him)

So the rest of the day was filled with jumping, more jumping. Lego assembling/playing and poor Mummy heading off to the Dr’s at 4pm after we had a lovely chat with Nan, Aunty Lesa, Kev, Dylan and Baby Noah in Australia on Skype. We all had to laugh as Alexander has always called Noah “Baby Noah” as he was a small baby when he first met him. He did remark that Noah isn’t a baby anymore he’s a bigger boy now!

Hope everyone had a lovely and an enjoyable day with family and friends as much as we did.

and as Alexander will tell you or anyone who will listen - 3 more sleeps till Santa!!!!!

Plus he has also informed us that if he wakes in the night should he go and check if Santa has been and then come and wake us!!!!!  I have informed him that if he wakes, HE will be sent back to bed till it is at least light outside.  Or maybe I might leave something at the end of his bed to take back to bed....or will that keep him awake!!! Ohhh what is one to do with children who are now so excited about Santa!

Hello Nanny in Australia, and Aunty Lesa, Dylan and Noah!!!




We went to visit Santa in the mall today much to Alexander’s delight, will post photos later of that. I had to chuckle though, I was talking to the lady in front of us in the queue and she told me her 10 year old son just asked Santa for a “hot babe and a Farahi sports car”!!!!!!

This is such a usual sight in our house, Scrufty really is Alexander’s buddy, they love to snuggle on the couch together like this, although Scrufty is ever hopeful he might get a little treat from the chippie bowl Alexander has. He would never just take one; he just waits and looks and waits. Must admit if he got up and left them, that would be too much for Scrufty and he would gobble them up as soon as your back is turned.

The look of concentration – you can tell he is going to be gaming well into the night when he is a teenager can’t you!!!

Only 4 days left for kindy this year.

I think Alexander is ready for a break as he has been getting a bit tearful when I leave him in the mornings! Plus he is so slow at getting ready in the mornings!



He has also been hunting round the house for Christmas presents, I didn’t think he’d see a bag from The Warehouse at the top of the office wardrobe, and he was so sure he had seen a Lego box through the bag!!!! Talk about x-ray eyes. I’ve moved the bags now as Dave caught him standing on the office chair trying to have a better look.



Lucky he can’t read yet – we have got him a trampoline for Christmas I have advised Dave to get the instructions out a good week before so he can read through them, it would be just our luck we would be up to midnight on Christmas Eve putting it together.

Alexander likes to call himself "Alexander Beetle" and even when he is asked his name he says "Alexander Beetle"
Well it comes from a song that we have on a cd in the car...called - Alexander Beetle
below are the words to the song.... :-)

On a little more investigation, (Google) I found out it is a poem by AA Milne sometimes also called forgiven!



I found a little beetle; so that Beetle was his name,


And I called him Alexander and he answered just the same.

I put him in a match-box, and I kept him all the day ...

And Nanny let my beetle out -

Yes, Nanny let my beetle out -

She went and let my beetle out -

And Beetle ran away.



She said she didn't mean it, and I never said she did,

She said she wanted matches and she just took off the lid,

She said that she was sorry, but it's difficult to catch

An excited sort of beetle you've mistaken for a match.



She said that she was sorry, and I really mustn't mind,

As there's lots and lots of beetles which she's certain we could find,

If we looked about the garden for the holes where beetles hid -

And we'd get another match-box and write BEETLE on the lid.



We went to all the places which a beetle might be near,

And we made the sort of noises which a beetle likes to hear,

And I saw a kind of something, and I gave a sort of shout:

"A beetle-house and Alexander Beetle coming out!"



It was Alexander Beetle I'm as certain as can be,

And he had a sort of look as if he thought it must be Me,

And he had a sort of look as if he thought he ought to say:

"I'm very very sorry that I tried to run away."



And Nanny's very sorry too for you-know-what-she-did,

And she's writing ALEXANDER very blackly on the lid,

So Nan and Me are friends, because it's difficult to catch

An excited Alexander you've mistaken for a match.

Often I come back from walking the dog to find this!

Mummy reads the first story and then I go out and walk the dog while Daddy settles Alexander, often with a made up story or he listens to his iPod with stories cuddled up to Daddy.