New Year with Holly

For New Years Eve Lucy decides to visit her top friend Holly. Marcus just about manages to keep the two little girls in check.

Holly has some great tiger pajamas.

Matt shows Lucy the Tomboliboos

Matt is round and sensibly elects to read Lucy an "In the Night Garden" book which and his wife Alexis got her for Christmas. It is now one of her firm favorites.

Strange Fruit

Lucy make a visit to Great Nanny to wish her a Merry Christmas. She helps herself to a fruit. Or a potato as we normally call it. Not to worry - she still chomps away.

Spotting Lucy's slight mistake Great Nanny kindly takes the potato off her. Lucy just grabs an onion.

Bag Hat

Lucy has a nice bag that was her Christmas stocking. We thought that she could put her many crayons in it. However, she has decided that it is a hat.

Quite an odd hat.

Boxing Day

Boxing day arrives and it is out for another festive meal. This time in a little village between Hull and Beverley. Lucy enjoys playing with the tat that came out of her cracker. No one is sure what it is but she likes it.

Lucy writes about the day in her diary.

Rather than another Christmas dinner, Lucy opts for that other festive favorite - chips and tomato ketchup.

Auntly Pinks dangley blue ears are more hypnotic to Lucy than Derren Brown could ever dream of.

* parp *

Phantom of the Piano

Lucy decides to play the piano with her squeaky squirrel friend

Suddenly Lucy and squeaky squirrel look a bit apprehensive! What can they have seen?

Who is this cloaked pianist? Is it the phantom of the opera making an uncharacteristic visit to Hull? Rick Wakeman?

Of couse it is just cousin Jonny. Lucy loves listening to his Les Dawson esque piano bothering.

Grandad reads a book

Lucy got Grandad a book called "I'd rather go to Grandad's". Unsuprisingly Grandad was very happy to read it to her.

For no good reason Daddy decides to get in on the photo.

Christmas Bubbles

Mummy has got Lucy a wonderful bubble making machine as one of her Christmas presents. Initially she is a bit unsure so she goes to Grandad for a bit of security.

Concerned expressions are soon replaced by bid grins.

Bubbles!

Lucy likes bubbles. A lot.

Christmas Dinner

Ho ho ho. Christmas day has arrives and the family goes out for Christmas dinner. Being quite a sophisticated young lady Lucy kicks off with Palma ham and melon as a starter.

Then the main course arrives. That is a big plate of food for a little fella! She has basically got the same as the grownups (apart from her own bottle). Yum Yum.

Obviously she has to ensure that she is attired in the appropriate head wear.

By a strange coincidence Uncle Doody and Aunty Sue are sporting similar fashions.

Grandad pops over to help Lucy read her "In the Night Garden" comic. To be quite honest, he barely knows his Iggle Piggle from his Makka Pakka but having dragged brought 4 kids up he knows a thing or two about entertaining sprogs.

Aunty Pink joins in the Sponk wrangling duties. Jonny is amused.

Uncky Kev has the right idea. Yorkshire Bitter. Mummy prepares to tuck into a fine pint of Northern goodness.

Lucy sticks to her Iggle Piggle jigsaw.

Aunty Sue is a teacher so she has to practice looking disapprovingly over the top of her glasses every day. It is part of teacher lore. In the background, naughty school children Grandma and Aunty Tiss carry on chatting in class regardless.

Flouting the law, Lucy tries her hand on the one armed bandit. There is a clear notice saying over 18's only be we choose to interpret that as months.

Hold the Cherries!

After all the excitement Lucy has a nice glass of orange to calm down.

Going to bed on Christmas Eve

Lucy plans to get a good nights sleep before the excitement of Christmas tomorrow.

Grandad does Nursery Rhymes

Grandad entertains Lucy by reciting nursery rhymes with all the actions. Her favorite is "This is the way the old man rides"

Christmas Eve Tea

It's Christmas Eve and everyone is getting excited! Grandma and Grandad have layed out an excellent party tea.

Lucy is put off her food by the sight of Aunty Pink picking her nose.

Tree Hat

Lucy turns herself into a Christmas tree with this special hat.

Box: Boat? House? Takeover!

This must be a warning for Christmas. Lucy's favorite toy at the moment is a cardboard box! So I suspect that quite a few Christmas presents may be slung casually to one side as Lucy plays with the box and wrapping paper.

When the box is on the ground like this Lucy calls it her boat.

When it is on the side she call it her house. This is a particularly versatile box.

In order to make the box even better and evoke maritime feelings Mummy and Lucy decorate the flaps with pictures of octopuses and sharks.

But they didn't recon on the pirate Captain Barney capturing Lucy's ship.

Doody helps with Gloves

Lucy is struggling to get her gloves on so Uncle Doody offers to help.

Looks like Doody is baffled as well!

Super Nug

Lucy loves being wrapped in her lovely snugly Nug. But the problem is that it is not very portable in that configuration.

The answer it to use it as a super hero cape. Nugman!

Christmas Tree Angel

Seems like Mummy has been watching Blue Peter and getting all creative. What is this we see on the top of our Christmas tree?

It's a little Lucy angel that Mummy has made. Ahhh.