Christmas in Sydney

We were invited over to a friend's house for Christmas Eve where all the children participated in the nativity story. Here are our sheperds...Benji, Dallin, William, Ocean and Burke. Burke insisted on wearing his wool vest with his head through the arm hole.

Sydney's Christmas Beetle. So colorful, and they say you know it is Christmas because you see these everywhere.
William's letter to Santa. Der Santa, Thancc you
lov, william for kuminggG.
burke, so(r)en hav a nic night.


Soren had tried as hard as he could the night before to eat Santa's cookies. In the morning, the first thing he did was to go finish off the crumbs.
Soren is extremely grumpy on an empty stomach, but we don't have breakfast until after presents, so I ended up just giving him a piece of bread to tide him over. Present opening was much more pleasant after he ate it!


The boys in their new Christmas pjs...thanks G&G Bennion!

Burke trying to feed his new walking and talking dinosaur.

The boys in their Ghana soccer shirts...thanks G&G Petersen!

The boys new squishables from G&G Bennion. So soft.

I put Soren in the highchair...while I was cutting up an orange for him, he got a hold of some homemade chocolates someone had brought by for us. When I showed this picture to Don, he said, "Wow, that is full on." Don's picking up the Aussie lingo!