On Christmas Eve we went up to my parents house. It's a 2.5 hour drive and Zach did really well. He only slept for about 40 minutes in the car, which is usually a three hour nap...he took a cat nap later in the afternoon to make up for it. My parents couldn't wait to see Zach and were impressed by his vocabulary and understanding. Both have really taken off in the last month! On Christmas morning, instead of the usual showering, getting pretty for the inevitable Xmas morning pictures, we rolled out of bed, threw clothes on and dove into the gifts! I think the years of having nice looking Xmas morning pics are a thing of the past. Now I'll look like every Mom on America's Funniest Home Videos on Xmas morning. Oh well.
I thought Zach would go crazy over the ridable lion Santa brought him, and he obliged by running up to it and pointing out his eyes and saying "eyes".
And then he was over it.
(sigh)
He had a great time opening his gifts, and helped open everyone's gifts as well.
This was by far the favorite gift of the morning. I found it (I mean, Santa found it) for $30 online at Walmart! Jeff was none too thrilled when he was looking at the measurements (before blow up) and saw that it was 7 feet wide. Eh, whatever. My kid will have fun and that's what matters. So what if we have to stand up to watch tv.
Over the next several days we ate and ate and ate. Oh, and we played cards when Mr. Bug went night-night. Oh, and then we ate some more.
There was also a huge storm that came through and dumped snow up in the park (Sequoia). It's a steep incline to the park and beyond, so we were able to get to snow in 10 miles. My kid is VERY adventurous. He has no fear. He'll stand and climb and spin until he crashes into the furniture. He does NOT, however, like snow.
He did not want to stand in it, walk in it and insisted on becoming Velcro and cling to me or Jeff. Oh, and he didn't want to throw snow balls, but he did want to throw buckeyes (big nuts from the buckeye tree), so long as they were handed to him and he didn't have to root around in the snow.
He finally DID warm up to the whole snow idea, as long as he could climb up huge boulders.
The next several days, instead of taking Zach back to the not so great snow, we took him to the river instead. He loved, LOVED throwing rocks into the water and could have done it ALL day. Truly, I don't think he would have gotten tired of it, EVER. I can't seem to find the pics of that, but I'll post them when I find them.
1 comments:
Great snow pics and wow that blow up toy looks like it's a blast!
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