Trees, Poop, Jake and chooks.

I am totally loving the fact I have time to do things this year for christmas, normally I end up working hiddous hours and have no time to do any of the things I want too. This is definately a bonus and reward for working my butt off at tech!
Trees: The best kind of all... Lolly ones! These three were made the other night, the sliver one has Guylin chocs and is for Jakes homebased carer (he goes there one day a week) The other two were for friends of Mums.

I just love the green one. It looks very tree like ;)

And the mother of all trees....

For Jakes childcare center teachers and staff, I brought 10 bags of lollies and about one bag worth was left! It weighed a ton, but Jake managed to carry it in to the center :D he was so proud.

Poop.... ??

Reindeer poop of course. Quick wee gifts, Im giving to friends. *note to self dont make all the bags up and leave them on the table in the afternoon sun!!* Arrrgh. I had to start all over again, but at least I scored some poop out of it ;)

Jakeb, not a very good shot :( but hes dancing and I think its cute! Hes got so much more energy now that hes not eating Dairy, Im amazed. In the background on the ranchslider is a big painting he did, apperently its me ;) :D

And Jake "building mum a house" Im going to hold him to this... I expect a similar house built when hes a fully trained architect!

Chooks, my youngest babies! Who still think they belong inside! (I hand raised them form a week old, so they did use to be inside) Cant wait until they start laying, Im hopeing it will be my xmas gift! I love the fluffy butts at the top of the pic lol

How to make christmas last forever

According to a 3 year old?...

We refill the empty pockets of our advent calendar with our felt pens and blocks! Bless him! He must of noticed they were all almost empty and didnt want the daily fun to end. Sadly Mum is a party pooper and is not doing christmas forever ;) Just wait untill he discovers the last day = lots of presents the next morning.

Excuse the odd photo the wind was blowing the calendar around.

This has to be one of the best purchases I ever made in relation to Christmas (bar my wonderful living totara chrissy tree). I got it last year from a fabric store in ChCh, I think it was really cheap like $5 a panel and just needed sewing up, so glad this year to have it now that Jake is Dairy free so those horrible choc ones are definately out now. Its filled with small toy cars, bikes, parachute men, stickers, the odd lolly and money. The money gets saved up and then we go to the shops and Jake picks a present to put under the Kmart wishing tree. This year will be interesting because Jake has a bit more understanding now, and we have been having converstations about children that dont get any presents because their mummies and daddies have had a hard year. (Altho Im sure this contradicts the 'Santa' story?! yet another reason Im not keen on 'Santa' but thats whole other post ;) )