Christmas morning

On Christmas morning/lunch time we went over to Adam's house who graciously hosted our annual International Orphans Christmas party this year. We had a lot of fun and as usual there was waaaay too much food. Everything was delicious so we kept on eating for hours as we talked and played games. We got to catch up with some of our old friends and made a few new ones as well. SV had a blast running around and going up and down the stairs.

Opening pressies

SV was really getting into the act of opening presents until she got stuck at which point she got frustrated. When she finally unwrapped a present she would raise her eyebrows and dramatically say "Ooohhhh". She had a hard time moving from gift to another though, because she wanted to explore the first one before moving on. Below are a couple of photographs of her opening gifts in no particular order.
Again we want to thank everyone for their generous gifts and hope everyone had a good Christmas.

Christmas dinner

On Christmas Eve it was a really hot and humid day, so we not only had the air conditioning running, but we just couldn't bring ourselves to dress up, not even SV. We did have a delicious tur-duck-en (turkey, duck and chicken all in one) roast which was wrapped in bacon. Honestly how could we lose. KT also made some deliciously creamy mashed potatoes with grave and some steamed broccolini. Cranberries on the side and chocolate strawberries for dessert (we saved the pies for Christmas day). Great meal which all three of us ate with gusto. Hopefully you all had delicious meals as well.

Gift baby

We want to thank everyone for their generosity in giving us and especially SV as many wonderful presents as they have done. This photograph is a bit of a remake of SV with the packages that some of you may remember from last year's Christmas post. Stay tuned for some more Christmas photographs over the coming days.

Christmas good night

SV finishing off her Christmas day of eating with a healthy dessert of blueberries which she absolutely devours these days.

Happy Christmas!

SV with Santa's help wants to wish everyone a Happy Christmas.

SV at breaky

SV can now feed herself almost an entire breaky. Today her favourite wheat bix had her usual coconut, but also bonus raisins. And of course as everyone knows, bonus raisins are the best kind of raisins. She managed to eat her entire bowl with a glass of milk, and she even managed to eat some of TV's oatmeal.

Also, one more sleep until Christmas!

Going to town

While KT was having a well deserved sleep after working all night, SV and TV headed into the CBD for lunch and to do a bit of shopping.

Little shopper

SV saw that KT was curling her hair to go out and she started playing with the rollers. When we told her to pack them all up she helped out but then continued walking around with the whole pack as if it was her little shopping bag.