Santa Baby

Christmas in November

Tiernan's best bud, Sam is going home on Friday for 6 weeks. We decided that since they are inseparable at the moment, we wanted them to experience their first "Real Christmas" (last year they were merely little blobs of puke).

We took them to see Santa together. Lets just say that Tiernan was a little perturbed by the whole experience, which amused me as he is generally do fearless, but I have seen this phenomena time and time again with kids, Santa is one scary dude when you are 1 and a bit! Sam was a lot more composed and actually sat on the old fella's lap for a while after we removed an almost hysterical T man. He was waving and blowing kisses bye, it obviously is something that you grow in to!

We brought them home and let them both nap at my house. When they got up we decided to try and get a few festive photos of them together where T wasn't looking so scared.

We then let them open their presents from each other! I was eagerly awaiting a flurry of wrapping paper and ribbon, but they seemed more content playing with the boxes. I think I need to lower my expectations for Christmas Morning already! Once we had helped them unwrap their presents they had great fun playing with their new toys, although they both seemed more interested in the other ones toy - go figure!

They had dinner together and watched a show and we put them down to bed and then us adults sat and had a nice dinner, a few drinks and a load of laughter!

Tiernan is going to miss Sam terribly while he is gone.

What I'm Thankfull for this year ........

So picture this scenario.

T has had a really bad diaper rash the past couple of days, so we have been giving him as much"diaper free" time as possible. Yesterday afternoon after the second of his twice daily poops, we took off his diaper and let him at it!

I was juggling getting ready, hair, makeup, ironing clothes etc. The sweet potatoes were in the oven and were frustrating me by not cooking in the designated 30-40mins that the recipe stated they would.

I had my schedule all worked out, it went something like this:

4.30pm - Potatoes Finish Cooking, take out oven and leave to cool.

4.35pm - Apply Makeup Step 1

4.45pm - Pack diaper bag with jammies etc etc

4.50pm - Mash Potatoes and add pecan topping and broil

5.00pm - Tony dress Tiernan while I fix hair

5.15pm - Take Potatoes out oven

5.25pm - Apply Makeup Step 2

5.30pm - Load car and leave

All was going failry well, the potatoes were taking a little longer to cook than specified, but it was no biggie.

Until at around 4.33pm, all SHIT hit the fan, literally. I looked into the playroom where Tiernan had been playing quietly, in hindsight, a little too quietly.

There he is amidst a carpet load of shit, poop on the toys, poop on his clothes, poop on everything that I could see. I about had a coronary on the spot. This could not be happening, not only had he already expended his quota of poopage for the day, I had potatoes to fluff and makeup to apply!

So the rest of the time went something like this:

4.33pm - Shit hits the fan

4.34pm - Tony hauls T upstairs arms outstretched and hoses him off.

4.35pm - I am scrubbing carpets with Resolve.

4.42pm - Scrub hands 32 times

4.45pm - Still scrubbing carpets and disinfecting toys etc

4.50pm - Potatoes ready, take out oven.

4.51pm - Apply scant amount of makeup possible in the 3minutes and 30seconds I can spare.
4.54pm - Tony dressing Tiernan and packing diaper bag.

4.56pm - Find more shit and start scrubbing again.

4.59pm - Scrub hands again and clip nails, just in case.

5.00pm - Mash potatoes

5.05pm - Put Pecan topping on potatoes and put in oven

5.10pm - Wipe sweat off face and get dressed.

5.15pm - Disinfect toys once more coz I'm paranoid.

5.20pm - Retouch very shiny face and frazzled hair

5.25pm - Take Potatoes out oven and transfer to car.

5.30pm - Load car and leave!!

I was amazed that despite the chaos, I managed to keep my cool and not dissolve into a big ball of snot and go all crazy woman on it!!

And through it all, T had this huge smile on his face. And who could be mad when faced with this??

T loves Fall..........and sticks!!

T and Sam's sleepover

Tiernan had his first sleepover on Friday night. Let's just say that Mama was a tad.....no ALOT nervous. His best buddy Sam is very attached to his Mammy and has never been left with anyone but his grandparents before. He also makes himself sick when he gets upset, so needless to say, I was a little nervous!

I shouldn't have worried for a second, the boys had so much fun! They wolfed down hamburgers and french fries and then chased after each other tickling for about half an hour.

We changed them into their Jammies and they settled down to watch Toy Story.

With a little pancake supper

What can I say, they were engrossed by Toy Story

They then decided that it was time to get up and mess around, they entertained each other for about an hour before bed time.

They both slept like angels, they must have worn each other out. Sam woke once and was easily put back to sleep and they woke literally within minutes of each other in the morning.

They had a good breakfast and were ready for the day!

It was a great experience for everyone involved, my friend got some much deserved alone time with her hubby, the boys had great fun and so did Tony and I just watching the boys interact.

We have decided to make it a regular occurance!

Best Friends Forever

Tiernan's best bud and partner in crime is Sam. The boys love spending time with each other, play great together and have developed this really great and unique bond, which comes through in today's photos.

I hope that they remain such good friends as they grow up together!!

Little Monkey

Tiernan has been very enamoured by my laundry basket lately. This morning I found out why, he uses it as a platform for his mischief!!

YAY ME

Pancake Sunday

We have started our own "Lazy Sunday Morning Pancake" tradition.

We make a little bed on the living room floor with blankets and pillows and let T watch Teletubbies while we make breakfast.

We alternate between Buttermilk pancakes and Swedish Pancakes accompanied by berries and on very special days, bacon and eggs.

Tiernan loves himself some pancakes, but is even more partial to berries!

He likes to thank us for his yummy breakfast by gifting us with one of his infamous "open mouthed" kisses. It was Daddy's turn this morning!

We are very grateful to have a little boy who appreciate the effort we make and who helps with the cleanup.