Christmas Wish

So, I’m not going to lie to you all… this little guy has really struggled over Christmas Day this year… much more than previous years.

He was okay up until Christmas morning… then it all just went slightly downhill from there really.

He got up early on Christmas morning, along with his 2 sisters, and 4 brothers… they were all excited… hyper actually! 😂

All so eager to see what Santa has brought for them. Cammy was also very happy at this point… but I think it was just because it is very rare for everyone to get up out of bed at the same time as him. (He found this to be really funny!) … Giggled away to himself, and bounced on our bed, as per usual.

He took my hand, and followed everyone happily downstairs. However, once the living room door was opened it was a different story. 🙈

Cammy sat close to me in amongst the noise… squeals from the other kids, and rustling from all of the unwrapping.

Now, usually, Cammy LOVES to unwrap presents… so, I didn’t think he would actually need much prompting to open any of his own… but nope! He just ripped a couple of corners of the presents I was trying to help him open… had a quick look at his favourite presents from this year… (his egg chair from Ikea, and sensory light up cushion), then he retreated into the kitchen, away from the chaos.

Once I gave him his ipad though, he seemed better, and came back through to sit beside me on the rug… temporarily back into some kind of relaxed and happy state.

He just ran around for the best part of the day… once he had recovered from the morning. He had a good look at what everyone else had got from Father Christmas, ate lots of chocolates, played some more You Tube videos on his ipad, had lots of spinning fun on his new egg chair, and so on.

It was really once it came to meal time that I felt for our wee boy.

He refused to come and sit at the dinner table again. So we tried taking his food through to him in the living room, and placing it both beside him, and casually nearby… hoping he would maybe even graze from the plate… but no… he just pushed EVERYTHING away. 😢

One by one, the little kids began coming back through from the dining table to sit beside Cammy, but he was quite happy on his ipad, and just ignoring what was going on around him.

The only time he actually decided to come through to the kitchen, was just to help himself to a couple of apples out of the fridge to eat!!!!!🙈

So, basically, our little star chose to sit on his ipad for the whole mealtime in the other room, to try and block out the noise coming from everyone, and to avoid the busyness of the kitchen. And yes, he ended up having apples for his Christmas dinner!!!!! …Point blank refused everything else!

Oh yeah, and we did the meal all over again on Boxing Day.

I managed to sit him down for all of 2 minutes at the table, but once everyone started to fill their seats… he climbed out, and disappeared through to the living room again. And this time… he only came through to take some bananas for his dinner!!!! 🙈🙈🙈

😢

So, folks, as you can probably already tell… if there was such a thing… my one and only Christmas wish… would be for our gorgeous little boy to be more involved.

(to know how loved he truly is, to actually enjoy spending time with everyone… and to be able to eat his Christmas dinner).

The other kids had fun though, and Cammy seemed happy enough… happy to just have Christmas in his own way. ☺️

…(Just Mummy And Daddy that felt sad for our little man I guess). 😢

I hope you all had a lovely time with your nearest and dearest though. 💕

Love to you all, and Happy Holidays folks!!!

❤️❤️❤️ x