Vallentine Christmas 2016

Arthur picked out this ornament himself at our trip to Hamleys when we were in London for our US passport renewal.

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Ada was a mouse in her school's Christmas nativity play, which this year was actually not a nativity play, but a production based on the story of how the carol 'Silent Night' came to be written. The Reception class (UK equivalent of kindergarten) didn't have their own song, but they were all mice and had a small "dance" number

The cousins from the Vallentine side were over visting from Nepal so we went to Weston Super Mare pier with them. I thought it was a good time for Ada to practice her skee ball. (I mostly just waited for her to get bored so I could practice my skee ball.)

On Christmas Eve, Ada took part in the local church's family Christmas Eve service. All the kids that wanted to could play a role. Ada's friend Grace was 'Angel #2. Ada was unnumbered, in the general "band of angels."

We made a gingerbread house, badly. But Ada did a good job decorating.

This is Christmas Eve, hanging their stockings up (and before we went upstairs for bath and getting into their new Christmas pjs). 

  

Arthur refused to be in the Christmas morning matching pjs photograph. 

Ada got a violin from Santa (it was on her list to him).

Arthur got a car transporter.

Arthur also got a lot of train stuff to fill in Ada's preexisting track collection.

Like mother, like son.

We persevered with getting a matching pjs shot. I was determined!
I love pjs.

Yay, Christmas!

Jessica's Birthday!

Geocaching treasures

Larkin' at the Park

Ada's gone to school; Arthur's gone to work

Ada's First Day at School

Ada's last day!

Today was Ada's last day at Charlton Nursery. She's been there three to four days a week since she was about eight months old.

She missed the "graduation" ceremony while we were in the States but got her special hat.

Arthur will continue to go there so we're not done yet!

On to big kid school on Monday!!!