Troy and Laila

Christmas Eve

Yesterday was fantastic. We went to my mom's as did my brother and sister with their families. We watched the traditional shows on TV, we had dinner and the kids were well behaved waiting for Santa.
After dinner the kids were getting more and more excited waiting for Santa. Troy was a bit worried that Santa's beard might catch fire since Mormor had candles burning all over the place, and how would Santa get in with a fire burning in the fireplace. We finally heard heavy footsteps outside and the kids saw Santa outside the window. They opened the door for him, and for Troy's sake Santa actually said Ho ho ho. Celina and Troy told Santa all about how good they have been. Celina told him that she had been nice all day long :)
They got their gifts from Santa, and then gift unwraping mayhem ensued. There were so many gifts for the kids that Troy did not want to open all of his.
Since I am going for mother of the year award, having forgotten to get him a Christmas Callendar, I had also forgotten to bring his gifts from me to Mormor's house. The blonde dye must be seeping into my brain, at least I hope I am not just naturally this awful.
We all had a really great evening, and I did get Troy his gifts this morning.

I don't want any gifts

That is what T told me today.

Inger-Lise, Laila and Richard

Early start

Troy was so excited this morning, that is if it qualifies as morning. He woke up at 5am wanting to get up and check if Santa had filled his stocking. I managed to get him to wait until 7, but every 10 minutes he kept asking if it was time yet. I am pretty sure we will both need a nap today.

Treats for Santa

Troy bringing poridge and cookies for santa.

Kisses from Troy

My Morfar

My grandfather died 1,5 year ago. He died of Mesothelioma, a form of lung cancer. He lived with the cancer for a long time, and I am so glad that he got to see Troy before he died.

If he had still been alive we would have celebrated his birthday a few days ago.

What's up Africa?

I love that little map on my blog that tells me where people who happens upon my blog is from. There seems to be people from all around the world, but for some reason there is not one single person from all of Africa that have happened upon it. What's up with that? I know they have internet down there as well. At least I am pretty darn sure they do in Nigeria, cause they send me emails about hidden fortunes all the time.

Gift giving after divorce

There really should be a book or at least some guidelines out there on how this work. I am having the hardest time figuring out who I should and should not buy gifts for.
I guess I will just follow what feels right to me, and I am sorry if I am messing up on this one.

Mom is goofy

I have been really happy lately, and it seems like the happier I get, the goofier I get too. This morning Troy and I woke up to a winter wonderland. Instead of rushing off to work and daycare we took some time to go sledding. We had to try out the new snow racer he got for his birthday. I am not sure how smart it was, since he really enjoyed it and insisted that we stay home and play today.
After work we had to go grocery shopping, but we discovered that it is really fun to run around a snow covered parking lot with a shopping cart, so shopping took us a long time today.
One more day of work, and I can stay home and be goofy with Troy all day long for 4 whole days.

Decorating the x-mas tree

Troy helped me decorate the tree. He loved his Buddy and T-Rex ornaments

X-mas

I am done shopping for Christmas gifts. I went to the mall today and it was crazy, it was so crowded, so next year I will do the shopping a lot earlier. I got Troy a CD player, he likes to listen to books on CD, so I figured he should get his own CD player that can handle a 3 year old playing with it.
I had a date again this weekend (not a new guy this time;) ). It was absolutely fantastic, but since I think I am running the risk of him reading this blogg, that is all I am going to say about it at this time.

Happy Birthday Troy Alexander

I can't believe my little boy is turning 3, and yet it seems like he has been in my life for forever. I did not know that it was possible to love someone as much as I love him. I think I've been extremely lucky, he is so easy to be around. He does not sleep in in the morning, but he usually asks at night if he can go to bed. This summer he wanted to quit diapers, and he has only had about 3 accidents since the day we tossed out the diapers. He is in such a good mood when he wakes up, that getting up at 6am is not that bad. He usually wakes me up by saying: Good morning sunshine, or I love you mamma. If I get upset at him about something he tells me to stop being mad, he thinks we should just be friends and happy.
Since his birthday is tomorrow I wanted him to have a great weekend. This morning we went shopping for party supplies, and then we went to the pool. We had so much fun, and it's been a perfect day. He wanted me to sing Happy Birthday to him several times, and just mentioning that we are having a party for him tomorrow made him laugh out loud. He is so excited about turning 3. He told me that I could have his present, but I am sure as soon as he sees them tomorrow, he will be happy to keep them for himself.
Happy Birthday Troy, Mammas lille lussegutt.

Update

We talked to Troy's teacher at daycare, and I think we came up with a solution that will work. Since we had the talk Troy seems a lot happier, and he talks about playing with some of the other kids now. He even talks about the mean boy not hitting him (dc said there had been a couple of incidents with the boy).

Trouble at Daycare

Troy changed from the young kids 1-3, to the older kids 3-6 at daycare last month. Troy really enjoys daycare and was looking forward to becoming a big kid. It seems like the transition has not been as smooth as I hoped for. He does not want to go to dc anymore, he tells me that one boy in particular, one of the oldest keeps being mean to him excluding him, and some have also called him names. He also tells me that he has no one to play with. I feel so bad for him, and I am not quite sure how this happened. He is so outgoing and happy all the time, that I was sure he would make friends right away, even though he is the youngest by far. I have talked to his teachers about this, and they keep telling me that he seems to be doing OK. OK is not good enough! I have decided that I am going to schedule an appointment with them to see what we can do about this. I am not going to sit back and accept that my boy is unhappy at dc, he spends way too much time there for him to not have a good time while he is there.

Double booking

I was supposed to use this weekend to clean the house and decorate for Christmas, and at the same time get a little christmas shopping done. I did manage to buy a few gifts last night. Troy is getting Captain Sabertooth's (Sabeltanns) boat. I still need either a birtday or x-mas gift for him.
I also got myself in an unsual predicament. I am going on two dates tonight, back to back. Why did I do this to myself? I don't have time or nerves to do this kind of stuff right now.