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Well what an eventful Christmas!  I don’t know about the kids being tired, I feel like I haven’t slept for a week!

The fun started Christmas eve when our 3 year old decided bedtime really was not an option for him.  When making a sneaky run for it out of his bedroom, he slipped on the wooden floor and went head-first into the corner of the stair-gate.  The bump on his forehead emerged before our eyes, and the screaming of ‘Leave me alone’ and crying went well on until 11pm.  When he finally drifted off to sleep I sat next to him with a bag of frozen peas on his head in the hope it would lessen the lump and bruising for the photos Christmas day.  That was pointless looking at his poor head now!

Anyway, the fall obviously didn’t effect him too much because both boys were up at 5:30am.  The magic of Christmas through a child’s eyes is lovely to see.  The look on their faces was a picture in itself when they saw the treats left for Santa had gone, and Rudolph had taken a bite out of his carrot.  By the time they saw their sacks filled to the top my eldest was literally shaking with excitement!

Half an hour later with paper strewn everywhere along with cardboard galore and instruction manuals aplenty, we had 3 very happy little men.  With my DH doing the cooking this year, it was up to me to make up all toys for 3 boys at the same time with them getting increasingly frustrated that I didn’t have more pairs of hands! By 10am I was ready for bed again!

It’s now been only 2 days since Christmas day and already the familiar phrase, ‘I’ve got nothing to do’, has come from one of my little mens mouths. With a playroom full of new toys I didn’t expect to hear that for at least another week! Nevermind, with Christmas now over, I’ve  got my 5 year olds birthday party to organise for January.  With the thought of amusing 27 of his classmates at the front of my mind, I reckon the stress of Christmas was a breeze!

Father Christmas is taking all my 3 year olds pull ups away with him when he drops off his presents Christmas Eve.  I’ve been told by him that if Santa brings him some big boy pants then he’ll go to the toilet and won’t need them anymore.

Well, this is our last resort after a year of trying every single way we can think of to get rid of the pull up pants. We know he’s capable of going to the toilet because he does once a day before his bath at night time.  Getting him to go any other time of the day though would be nothing short of a miracle.  Yes, he did right at the beginning because I suppose it was a novelty being new to him, but now I’ll watch in disbelief when he’s obviously weeing/pooing in front of me. When that happens I’m like a mad woman on a mission to get him to the toilet in time to do it there instead of me having to change another putrid nappy.  At 3 and a half now changing his bum literally makes me gag.  Its no longer baby poo we’re talking about but poo that should be flushed down the toilet straight away!

Now, when I say we’ve tried everything I really do mean it.  Sticker charts, rewards, bribery, praise.  We’ve done tick charts for the whole family, so everytime one of us goes to the toilet we get a tick.  We’ve even had a money box next to the toilet so whenever he went he’d get money to add to his collection so he could buy a toy.  We’ve let him choose his own big boy pants too, which he was really chuffed about only to get home, put them on, then after an hour or so saying he didn’t need the toilet yet, proceed to make a gigantic puddle on my lounge floor.  Thank god for wooden floors is all I can say.  My house would stink to high heaven if I had carpet with the amount of ‘accidents’ i’ve mopped up.

So my wish for Christmas is this – Please Father Christmas bring my little man some pants with magic wings on them that fly him to the toilet when he needs it!  That in itself would make my Christmas just perfect!

The months have gone so very quick and Christmas is now here

With sparkly lights and merry fun with lots of festive cheer.

The mulled wine is ‘a’ brewing and the carols being sung

Christmas trees are all put up and on it baubles hung.

The children are excited and are waiting for the night

That Santa comes and visits them with Rudolph’s nose so bright.

The stockings will be hanging up and waiting to be filled

So come the time that mornings here the kids will all be thrilled.

The table will have left on it a treat for Santa too

A plate of cake and cup of milk with carrots for his crew.

The children will be tucked up tight and resting in their bed

Just in time to fall asleep when favourite stories read.

The crack of dawn will come round fast and with it lots of fun

Now presents can be opened up and Christmas days begun.

The paper will be scattered and the empty boxes too

The toys will all be played with now as each of them are new.

So now the time is drawing close and soon it will be here

We wish you all a happy day and have a great new year. xxx