Merry Christmas

Well, vacation has started, Preston is bouncing off the walls, gifts are 95% wrapped and we are ready for the arrival of Santa Claus tomorrow night. Oh and we both feel great since we are on antibiotics. We both came down with a cold/throat infection last week. This is a major accomplishment since Preston has not been on antibiotics (other than finger ointment for his hematoma) since February! Go Preston's immune system! He also had his three year check up and is measuring at the tippy top of the achon chart so he had a great growing year!

Tomorrow Jordana, Sammy and Baby Madeline are coming for Christmas Eve. Then the day after Christmas it is off to New York! (Oh Tony's I can taste your delicious food in my mind).Hopefully Preston will go to bed tomorrow at a decent hour while my father and I put together Thomas tracks. We have decided that all trucks are coming out of their respective boxes. Maybe except the one from Aunt Mel which is fifteen feet long and truly designated as an outdoor vehicle. When Preston opens a gift he demands it out of the box pretty quickly and nothing kills the momentum and enthusiasm of a new gift like unscrewing 12 screws and cutting barbed wire to release a $15 truck. I mean really. Just in case you are thinking of shoplifting-don't go for any Tonka trucks. Apparently bondage personnel put these things together! We only got one little Figure 8 Thomas set with the station. I would like to ensure that Preston is playing with said tracks in a month before I invest $400 into the Lift and Load set. He loves playing with the trains but on tables, chairs, windowsills, so we'll see. I am SO excited for his face when he sees his scooter! Thank Heavens it is going to be in the 60s on Christmas so he can ride outside. That was always a Christmas buzzkill-getting a bike and there was snow or leftover mounds of sand and salt from the snow on the street so you got to ride your new bike in April.

My mother also bought Preston a gingerbread train. He had a ball making the train and eating all the candy as he went! Merry Christmas everyone!
And for everyone who wanted to see the finalized Christmas card-I literally only have one card left so next year blogging buddies-we will all have to exchange addresses early on! Here are the pictures I picked! It was an agonizing decision! (In the first one I cropped it so you do not see his Pull Up)!