Snowing you say.... brrrrr. Enjoy!!!
Xmas here has been surprisingly pleasant given the god awful start. When I posted on xmas eve to say the toddle was asleep, little did I know that was the only bit of sleep I would be seeing. I was awake for literally the whole night, as after the toddle had fallen out of bed once (onto a mattress I hasten to add) she was not in the mood to get back into it. At one point DH got up to help, only his help involved co-sleeping with her beside him, with the duvet over her legs, which would be bad enough at the best of times, but given he had been drinking had me pretty mad. So I hauled her out, he got stroppy, and we ended up having the mother of all rows about it. Cue a very miserable night, me sitting up with a restless unhappy toddle on my shoulder until morning, and him snoring away in another room completely oblivious.
Xmas morning as you can imagine was pretty frosty, but somehow or other we managed to thaw out and have a lovely day. I even cooked a passably edible dinner, which the toddle actually deigned to eat. Well she ate the turkey, sausages and roast potatoes. The sprouts she handed back to me, and the carrots went on the floor. Which was kind of funny. Oh, and I discovered she is ok with nuts. Not through careful monitored exposure, but because she grabbed a slice of bakewell tart off DH's plate and shoved the entire thing in her mouth. Almonds obviously have the thumbs up, as I have never seen her eat any form of cake before.
Favourite present - a plastic tea set with plates and cutlery 
. Really????!!! She has spent hours sitting on the sofa with DH feeding him air from a mini teaspoon, and making him drink out of an empty cup. I guess I should be grateful really, as every hour she spends doing that is one she isn't scaling the furniture and throwing herself off.
Today we braved the sales, to buy...... you guessed it, some cot bed rails! For those yet to transition from a cot to a bed, buy these first. You will need them. Small people roll about in their sleep... a lot. They fall out. A lot. When they do they will first cry, and second come and find you. Sleep will become something you dream about but never actually attain. I would really really like some tonight, which is why I probably ought to go to bed now.