Oliver's First Christmas

Oliver was blessed to share his first Christmas with his granny and grandpapa from Perth and of course his Mum and Dad.

On Christmas eve we all went to the Children's mass with carols at St Columba's. Oliver obliged by falling asleep during The Little Drummer Boy - the song Mum and Dad and Granny sang endlessly in the early weeks to settle Oliver before sleep.

We had a cup of tea with the Parish Priest who was from Goa - so Dad's Christmas was complete and then walked home via the Christmas lights on Wells Street - which had almost every house decorated.

Christmas Eve dinner was the first time since Oliver was six weeks old that the four of us sat down together - what a change twenty weeks has brought - Oliver went to sleep and stayed asleep and we enjoyed dinner and wine - lovely!

Christmas morning saw Oliver receive many lovely presents -

(thankyou Giulia, Victoria, Megan, Justin, Margaret, Trish and Paul, Fiona, Benedict, Xavier and Imogen!)

And of course Oliver gave a few presents too - (Aggie was very happy with her new box!).

Justin, Amanda, Andrew and Ruby came over for Christmas morning tea and then it was time to play with granny and grandpapa and all the lovely new presents! A few phone calls later and Christmas was over for 2009.

Boxing Day saw Granny and Grandpapa leave for Sydney, Uncle Brendan arrive in his new car and a lovely walk in the wild and wooly weather on the beach.