I hope you’ve all had a wonderful Christmas, we sure have! Zack has been spoiled rotten, as have all of us

Here are some pics of our day…

Before the Stampede

Max the Christmas Elf

Bacon for breakfast

J helping Zack open his presents

Look at that!

Max and Monkey (Granny made him this!)

Caught in the act!

The aftermath…

Hope you’ve all had as fun a day as we have!

Marylin, J, Zack and Max

Thirteen Things I need to do before Christmas 1. write and send out Christmas cards (why do I always leave this so late??) 2. Buy the boys presents and wrap them. 3. Buy parents presents, wrap and send them. 4. Put up the decorations around the house, tree up so far but more to go! 5. Decide on and buy Christmas meal. 6. Clean the oven (in preparation for the christmas cooking). 7. Clean the kitchen. 8. Clean the whole blimmin house! 9. Burn Christmas music to cd to listen to while I’m cooking said Christmas meal. (clutching at straws now, can ya tell?) 10. Get J new shoes. 11. Figure out how to get a table into our living room as the kitchen is too small to prepare a large meal AND eat in it. 12. Look out old Christmas movies to watch with Zack 13. Carry on blogging through it all, and maybe sort out the possibility of a self-hosted site… if i get the time ;)All this with two weeks to go… *sigh* why do I always leave things til the last minute?!

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Ten things I’d like for Christmas… (most of this is really more like wishlist stuff… I know there’s no way I’ll get it!)

1. an iPod Nano
2. a replacement nintendo DS (J broke mine)
3. an iMac
4. Heroes dvd collection (is there one out yet?!)
5. CD: Radio 1: Est 1967
6. CD: Live Lounge Vol. 2
7. a Blackberry phone
8. a PSP for J (wanted to get one but a lil too much than we can afford atm ) plus the games he wanted
9. My Sims for the Wii (again, last one broke)
10. New boots

Wow I really can’t believe that he’s 2 months old already! Not only is he smiling lots he’s also started attempting to laugh… ok so it sounds more like a puppy yelping, but I’m sure it’s a laugh trying to come out - either that or he’s getting REALLY freaked out by the funny faces I keep pulling at him…

He had his first immunizations on thursday last week and was weighed and measured etc so the stats are now

• weight - 11lb 12oz
• length - 57cm
• head circumference - 39cm

which means he’s put on 3lb 4oz since he was born, stretched 6cm, and his head has gotten 4cm larger. Just as well he came out when he did then!

His feeding’s still a bit of a mare, he *should* be having 5 6oz bottles of formula a day, apparently… he won’t take more than 5oz in a feed and that’s only if we’re really lucky, and he refuses to have more than about 3oz in his last feed around 11pm no matter when he last fed, whether awake or as a dream-feed… basically he’s an awkward wee bugger with his food.

Last night went well though… fed at 11.30pm, fast asleep by the time he was back in his bed… next up at…

5AM!!!

I actually went to sleep at a decent hour and had about 5 hrs sleep in a row… god I feel better for it! lol

I don’t know why but I just can’t seem to get into the swing of the Christmas season at the moment, maybe because I’ve left everything to the last minute… I’m not sure. I know that I’m usually much more buoyed up by now than I am this year that’s for sure - got some Christmas songs on and they’re just not moving me at all! Maybe it’ll hit home this weekend when we get the last bits and pieces for pressies etc. I’m hoping to take Zack to meet Santa… I just hope he doesn’t freak out like he did last year - it’d be nice to have a decent pic rather than one of him screaming his face off! lol

I put up our Christmas tree yesterday but the boys decided not to sleep for long at their nap time (i.e. Max screamed his head off which woke up Zack) so at the moment it’s naked apart from the lights and a lil bit of tinsel… they’re both in bed at the moment and I feel like i *should* be putting the baubles etc on but tbh I can’t be arsed. I’d rather just get J to do it when he gets in - I think if I do that he’ll have a heart attack cause normally I’d never let anyone decorate the tree but me!

Just having a can’t be bothered day me thinks. My parents re coming over tomorrow with the Christmas gifts, so I’ll have to do it before they get here or my mum will insist on doing it for us. On second thought… maybe that’s just what I need.

So there I was making bottles up at 4am this morning *sigh. It’s times like these I really feel envious of the breast-feeders out there that’s for sure! Why is it that men seem totally incapable of doing anything chore-like unless they are prodded?? Of course it’s all my fault for not reminding him. Can you see the steam coming out of my ears yet…? Oh well, at least I can guilt-trip J into giving me a bit of a lie in later on this morning. I hope.

Christmas is two weeks on tuesday - TWO WEEKS. Oh my god I am nowhere near ready. We have no food yet, no Christmas presents, hell I haven’t even found the cards that I stashed away last year to send out this year (so much for buying a bargain when i can’t find it when I need to!). I was thinking of getting the decorations out this weekend, want to make the most of the season and all that, but at the same time I can see me telling Zack off constantly for trying to climb on or rearrange the tree, so maybe I will leave it for next weekend.

Bittersweet news we got yesterday - my dad finally has a date for his operation to remove some kidney stones and a stent that was put in 11 weeks ago and has been causing immense pain ever since. I’m so glad that he’s now got a date, it’s been horrible seeing him so sore - he’s never normally one to complain if he’s unwell, but this has just been unbearable for him.
The downside? The operation is scheduled for Dec 20th, which means we won’t be spending Christmas together after all, something that we were all so looking forward too. I know I should just be over the moon that he’s finally going to be relieved of this pain, and don’t get me wrong I really really am, but a- they should have sorted this out much sooner than they have, and b- now we don’t get to have the big family Christmas I’ve been hoping for since Zack was born.

There’s always next year of course… I just hope that they both keep well enough to be able to come over then!

Hmmm… what else to say? Oh, of course… some of my favourite bloggers have recently changed platforms to their own hosts… I had been musing doing the same thing at some point as I like being able to fiddle around with these sort of things, it’s a bit of a hobby I suppose. At the moment the only thing that’s stopping me is cash-flow. It’s just not a good time of year to fork out extra money I’m afraid, especially when I still have everything else to organise for Christmas first… 2 weeks on Tuesday, bloody hell! Anyway, back to what I was saying… what was I saying? Oh yes, I hope to have my own domain up by the new year, or just after. We shall see! After that there will be no more hopping about I promise!

Right. Max has finally dropped off and is no longer snuffling and grunting (gotta love those baby noises…just not at 4am) so I’m off to catch a lil more sleep before the troops wake.