My Lachy-clause!!

So today seems to be about what my kids wearing!!  This time i'v avoided sparkly dresses and gone for the more subtle....Bright Red Santa Hat!! (and his nappy too....and a tinsel tree...)

I love dressing my boy up and taking piccys!!  Actually, i love taking pics of him even in his normal everyday clothes!!  Any who....

And this one is my entry for The Paper Mamas Photo Challenge - Red!!

Love my wee Santa baby!!

Toodles!! :)

Santa Run!!!

So to start with, 2km my arse!!  It was 3.5km all up!!lol (and yes that makes a difference!lol)  I know i can jog 2km, anything after that is just guessing!!

From the start it was interesting!  When something is one size fits all, you gotta know someones gunna luck out!!  That someone was Hubby!!  It was like someone ordered the baby Santa suit for him!!  After a few minor adjustments to the suit (abandoning the pants and removing the arms from the jacket) he was sorted!!  My suit fit, but the second i started to take wide strides the felt started to disintegrate!!  It was hilarious!!

Trying to stretch my skirt a wee bit so i could, oh you know....walk!

The run itself was good, until we followed the wrong people and carried the pushchair up 2 flights of steps......UP THE WRONG PATH!!!  Oh well though! We'll consider it an extra challenge in the run!

Still smiling after carrying the pushchair up the wrong path!

So we managed to run at least half, nearly took out a few people with the push chair (as you do!) and finished in 31mins (or something very close to that, cant remember what my Hubby said....probably wasn't listening!!) which i'm pretty stoked with, considering the time we spent going the wrong way!!  It was hard work, and the Santa jacket only stayed on for about 5mins but we had fun, and it was for an Awesome cause!! (Child Poverty)!!

Here's a mini photo dump, just cause pic's are great!!

Me and my happy little elf!

Please take note of the wee hand pinching my neck, bubbas new hobby :(

Hehe, wearing daddys beard!!

FINISHED!!

Bubba finally slept right at the end!!

 So stoked we did this!!  Now to start gearing up for the next run!!  Training shall start on Monday.....Tuesday if the weathers bad....definitely by Thursday.....Friday at the Very Latest!! :)

Toodles :)

Meeting the 'Big' red man!!

I'v never been a big Christmas person.  In fact, most years i'm more of a grinch!!  I dont try to steal Christmas of course, but i try to stay as far away from festivities as possible!  Well this year is DIFFERENT!!  This year i have a little boy that looks at bright glittery things with AWE!!  I have a little boy that, in a couple of years, is going to know about the magic fat red man that delivers copious amounts of gifts, and his magical flying reindeer and sleigh!  He's going to hear about other kids leaving out cookies and carrots to feed said troop too!!

So last week i tucked my grinchness aside, and hubby and i took Lachy to meet Santa!!  (Im using the words 'hubby and i took' very loosely, cause really i dragged them both to the mall!)

The had a lovely Christmas scene set up, Pohutukawa (NZ's answer to a Christmas tree) and Takahe (An endangered NZ bird, although i thought they were Pukeko!) and Santa and his chair were front and centre!!

I totally thought Lachy was gunna cry, but he held it together as i settled him onto the 'Big' mans lap! (I'l point out here that Santa was in desperate need of some Big Macs!!)....(I also didn't mention to Santa that my son had soaked through his nappy, i just strategically placed a wee blanky between them!)

And so i stood there like a loon trying to #1 make my child look at the camera, and #2 make him smile!  Neither really worked but we did get one vaguely amused look out of him!!

 Did i mention that i'm now fully in the swing of Christmas and we have a decorated tree with a stocking for bubby! (I'l post about that later!!).  Ive decided that i'm going to get Lachy a picture with Santa every year for as long as he believes, just because :)

I'l be back again tonight! (So behind with posts!!)

Toodles :)