Grandma day count down, t-minus 19 hours

I couldn't resist uploading this photo of Peter and Grandma from last Halloween.

I am counting down the hours, minutes and seconds until my 2 year old, Peter, heads out the door to spend all of Friday, Friday night and all of Saturday with his Grandma (well, OK, Grandpa too) but these days it's all about Grandma. As I've mentioned before, Peter LOVES his Grandma.

My husband was out of town last night and won't return until after bedtime tonight. Last night was hell. I won't go into details, but basically it all happened....one waking the other, the two year old having sudden fears of being alone in his room demanding mom sleep with him, baby waking up ... what a mess. I expect a repeat tonight which will put me at roughly 4 straight nights with little to no sleep! I will NEED this quasi-free day tomorrow (I will still have the baby with me).

COME ON GRANDMA!!!

Are you up yet?!

7:15 am – One email: “Are you up?”
7:35 am - One off-line IM message: “Are they on their way?”
… and two missed phone calls on my cell phone, all of them from my Mother.

What was so urgent that warranted the blitzkrieg of messages? My mom, my son’s Grandmother, was getting to have my son over for the day and for a sleep over. I am so very happy that my Mother loves her Grandson so darn much. I am doubly lucky that she’s pretty much a Peter Pan and just one over-grown kid!

While all these messages are being left I’m upstairs with my son who has just woken up. Usually I have to sit in his room for about 15 minutes trying to coax him into a diaper change and clothing change. Not this morning! All I had to say was let’s get dressed to go to Grandma’s!! He runs over and lays on the bed and waits for me to change him! Wow, I wish I could use that ploy every morning! It seems my Son’s feelings are mutual for his Grandmother! He just LOVES her! As I’m changing his clothes he says the names of my Mother’s three cats: Bubba (short for Bacchus), PeeWee (short for Calliope), and Bella. He likes to shoot my Mother’s Nerf gun at the cats. :) He is a boy after all!

I am just as excited as they are…it means I get a nice, quiet, peaceful day with no children’s TV in the background, no children’s music playing, no screaming and crying because it’s nap time – which, by the way, my Mom never has had to deal with! I guess she has some magic dust she sprinkles over Peter to make him sleep! She claims he just passes out on the couch around nap time! I’m soooo jealous of that! But I’m glad someone can make this happen!

I couldn’t LOVE my Mother more!!!!