Zoo with Daddy

The kids wanted to take Daddy to the zoo while he was on holidays.  They had so much fun showing him all the animals and everything to see. 

Loving his digger

Loving his digger he got for Christmas from Grandma and Grandpa.  He first started using it in his sandpit, now he is digging up the backyard.  Oh dear!!

Boxing Day

For Uwe's birthday, we headed up to Watsons Bay to watch the start of the Sydney to Hobart yacht race.  We had a great view from the cliffs of all the boats coming out of the heads and making their way south.  The kids enjoyed an ice cream before chasing the ball around the park.

Christmas lunch

We spent Christmas lunch at my parents house.  So many more presents for the kids!! A wonderful lunch where we ate too much and a bit of relaxing afterwards.  The cousins all played together.  Such a lovely day.

Christmas morning

So much excitement in the house this morning when the kids arrived in the lounge room to see gigantic wrapped presents. They both started with the little presents before moving onto the big ones.  The two big presents were thankfully going in the cubby house.  We quickly got dressed and the kids spent the morning playing outside with the new toys in the cubby house.  So much fun spent playing with the kitchen, shopping trolley and play food and Sebastian's tool bench and work tools.

Christmas Eve

A Christmas tradition in Germany is to open the presents on Christmas Eve.  The kids love this idea!!  Seeing as we gave them the cubby house for Christmas they only opened a couple of small presents tonight (pjs). The kids bought each other a present, Sebastian bought Hannah a Peppa Pig caravan and Hannah bought Sebastian a toolbox.  We then got Santa's milk and cookies ready and the carrots for the reindeer's were left out.  A quick Pfeffernuesse before bed and it was straight to sleep so Santa could come. 

The cubby house

Uwe and I bought the kids a cubby house for Christmas.  The kids were over the moon with the thought of getting a cubby house to play in.  We started off with giving part of the cubby house a lacquer and the kids loved helping to paint it.  My dad came over to help set it up with us, unfortunately it rained all day.  We all wore our rain coats and got to work.  Sebastian was Grandpa's best helper and spent quite a while helping him dig holes.  Hannah loved jumping in the rain, enjoyed a babycino then decided to help out too.  The end result is a fantastic place for the kids to play and build their imagination.

Seeing the Christmas lights

One evening we got in the car and drove around the streets of Bondi looking for all the houses with Christmas lights.  One street in Bondi was amazing.  Lots of houses decked out with lights and Christmas decorations. 

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