Happy New Year

Wow, another year has just begun. Where are they going? Why is it that as we get older, the years tend to pass us by more quickly.

Originally we didn’t have N.Y.E plans and were more than happy to stay home with movies and a pizza, original I know. Ryan would’ve been in bed by about 8:00pm and we could have had the night to ourselves. That was until we received an invite from Ryan’s Godparents, Allie & Brent to ring in the New Year with them. What a lovely idea.

Things kicked off around 7:00pm. 4 couples, 2 rampaging toddlers and Ryan. I say rampaging toddlers as these two little boys were just going nuts. Mum and Dad had no control over them, and couldn’t keep them quite. There is playing loudly and then there is running riot, these two were running riot, for the other 6 of us it made it a long and tiring few hours. We unconsciously seemed to be taking it in turns to seek refuge in the kitchen for a few minutes at a time.

The relaxing part of the even for us all kicked in around 10:00 – 10:30pm once the couple with kids decided they had better take their little ones home as it was evident that they just weren’t going to settle. It had been very hard for me to keep my patience with these two, and not say something to their parents. Especially as they were running up and down the hall where Ryan was sleeping (and he himself had just had a rough couple of hours and was very unsettled). Yes, he is a good boy and will sleep through anything, but he was definitely tested with them yelling and screaming right outside his door.

It was also the first time Ryan was to sleep in his portable cot too. We didn’t know how he would go. After a belly full of food we wrapped him, and let him drift off to sleep in my arms and then placed him in his porta cot. He was great. Just rolled over onto his belly as he does and that was it. He only stirred 3 times and that was when we would stick our head in the door to check on him (he would just roll onto this other side). It was nice to be able to sit back and relax (finally nas from between the hours of 5:00pm and 7:00pm he just screamed) knowing that he was ok.

Midnight came around and we celebrated with poppers, sparklers, kisses and hugs. There where fireworks going off around the neighbourhood, we could hear them but not really see them. We had a great, relaxing (in the end) evening with a bbq and drinks, great company and some really cool tunes drifting out the speakers of the radio. So many songs that we hadn’t heard for so long, but always seemed to get played on N.Y.E.

A perfect end to a year, and a great start to a new one.