Finished...and excited!

Well today I finished off the last of the Christmas shopping *big round of applause*. Whoot!

Justin has to buy one gift - his KK present for my dad and, as a couple, we have decided to buy ourselves new, white crockery in the post-Christmas sales as our Christmas gift to each other. So, technically, there's two gifts left to buy, but for now at least, I'm done, I'm done, I'm done!! I have even bought the food contribution for my family Christmas (I was in charge of providing the turkey this year and it is already stashed in my folks' freezer. Organised or what?!).

I have taken immense pleasure in buying Cate's Christmas presents this year. She is receiving the following on Christmas morning:

* Her new Fisher Price swing (which will last until she's three)
* A ball
* A tub of clipex blocks
* A DVD of 'In The Night Garden'
* A board book copy of Where Is The Green Sheep?, her favourite book EVER (I can't wait for her to have a copy she can maul as much as she wants so that her precious hardbacked copy can be put to rest before it's destroyed!)
* Her clam shaped paddling pool (a bit of re-gifting there seeing as I have already cracked it out!).

We spent roughly $120 on our 14 month old so, even though I could think of fifty other gifts for her, I think we are done. She won't even know what to do with the blocks, ball or DVD, I am just waiting for the thrill of watching her tear off the wrapping with glee. I'm happy with her gifts, their simplicity and the cost involved - I don't want to be going too crazy, too soon. Before we know it, Christmas will be costing us a fortune so I am enjoying savouring this time when Cate doesn't mind what she receives...she just loves tearing wrapping paper to bits more than anything!

Next year Christmas will be even better...she will have a stocking and we will definitely have a tree at our place, not just at Granny and Gramps' house. More importantly, next year she'll have much more of an idea about Christmas, Baby Jesus and Santa. And the year after that, she'll be three and that's when the magic of Christmas will really begin...the excitement, the joy, that excruciating sleep on Christmas Eve...I can hardly wait.